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Show 4288 Loper- D 2309 A I came the same way, only I didn't stop where I stopped the first time, but came on to Bluff, then on down to what is names Nonaker trail. Q What was the extent of the equipment that your party carried? A Our provisions and our beds and a few working tools, and one of the company was a kind of inventor, he had a machine, and it went the way of all other placer machines I ever saw, didn't amount to anything, so we sluiced and we rocked and sent out for more money to buy more grub with. Q How large a party did you have with you? A You knew, in locating a placer claim, there are eight names, or eight 20' s, making 160 acres. There was supposed to be eight in this company, but there wasn't eight in the party, because some of them didn't come down. There was Mr. Edmundson, Mr. Honaker, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jessup, Mr. Goodman and myself. There is two names short; I can't remember than, but those I do remember; and there was two or three of us young fellows, George Edmundson, Mr. Edmundson's son, Jim Hamilton was Mr. Hamilton's son, and myself, were all about an age. Naturally, we was younger -- they was old men -- so the burden of the business came mostly on us. |
