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Show 4625 Weber- C 2639 California bar; a follow named John Chris had the contract, as near as I remember; he had ten or twelve burrows; he would pack it down to Hanson creek. Q Then it would be loaded in the scow and taken from there? A On the landing place, around the island to the mine. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Was there a regular road from this coal mine down Hanson creek to the river? A Not a very good one. A wagon probably go down there rough country through there. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q I appreciate you couldn't accurately give a mileage in stating the distance from that coal vein where you got this coal to Hanson creek. But could you give us just come idea, that is whether it was ten miles, fifty miles, one hundred miles, just something that would approximate the distance? A Well, I would say about seventeen miles from the mouth of Hanson creek to that coal bed. Q Now, you spoke of another scow that I think you said you helped build in 1899. How large was that scow? A Fourteen feet on the bottom, twenty- eight feet long. Q And you stated that on one trip when you were carry- |