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Show 4184 McDonald- D 2204 unload it. We left most of the gasoline we were using on the lower bar, didn't take so much up; I left several thousand gallons of gasoline on the bank in a tank. Q In taking this scow up stream did you have any difficulty with sandbars? A No, right along there there was no difficulty; we couldn't have gone up the river any further, though. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Strike the latter part of that out. A It is next to the bluff, that's the reason the wagons couldn't get up, on account of a perpendicular Bluff; we had to use the scow and boat running up. Still, at the same time, I have rode horseback with a horse across the bar, right across the river, and rode up the bar time and again, and never got my feet wet. Took a horse on to the upper bar, rode it time and again, never got my feet wet. Q Was this dredge brought in altogether? A Oh, Lord no; it was built there, piece by piece; the heaviest thing was the engines, the two Fairbanks- Morse fifty- four horsepower, they were the two heaviest; then there was the sixteen, next,-- or the thirty- two, then the sixteen. there was three on the starboard, two on the port side. The |