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Show 5279 Chaffin- D 3291 that, so I would have a better chance. I had five four- horse loads of grub and horse- feed I loaded in these boats, and I loaded scrapers and machinery from the Moqui bar, enough what would draw about a good of water on these boats. You might figure out how much weight I had. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q And what month is this? A This was in January. Q 1898? A 1898. I went from there with these loads; when I got down below Hall's crossing to Little Giant bar, I left the boats. A fellow named Hay had charge of them, Bill Hay. He had ten men with him in it. I took the horses, I and a fellow named Maxfield, and went to the Hole- in- the- Rock, and was to meet these boats, expected to meet there that night at the Hole- in- the- Rock. We got there, and they wasn't there. I stayed there that day. The next day we went across the river. There was a boat some fellow left there. We went across and went out on the west side, to see where to get our horses out, to take them around and go into Elondike bar, down by Navajo fall, |