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Show 4190 McDonald- D 2210 its natural condition? A Yes. But see, the dirt that we dug up here, the buckets carried it up and dumped it into the grizzly, the grizzly turning all the time, it run down; then there was elevators, the lower edge of the elevators, the fine sand would come down, -- the heavy stream of water running in would carry the find sand on to the tables, the stream of water would carry it on to these tables and run down, saving the gold and what platinum there was, and the heavy part would run out of the grizzly and run down to this carrier and run down; there was an apron or bucker behind, that stacked all the rocks and dirt behind the dredge, throwed it back into the river. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Did that throw it back into the channel or on to the side? BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q The rock that came out in the course of your dredging, was it thrown up on the bank or thrown back? A No, thrown back into the river. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Into the channel? BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Into the channel? A Sometimes it would be in the channel, sometimes one side of the channel. |
