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Show 3980 Kane- D 2000 road. We bought a beef there from Mr. Johnson. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q How much stores did you have in your boat when you started from Crescent wash, do you know? A I don't remember. Q I mean, approximately how much stores did each boat carry, have you any idea? A Sixteen hundred or seventeen hundred pounds; it might have been a ton; I don't remember. I know we had sixteen eighty- pound sacks in one boat. Then there was in the keel, between the floor and the keel was quite a space; we filled that with canned goods of all kinds, loose in the bottom; it was a keel boat. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q That weight you give is exclusive of passengers? A Yes. Mr. Stanton figured an average rate of five miles a day, and provisions, enough of a variety to carry his twelve men until we got to Diamond creek; that was the next supply point. We were delayed, didn't make the five miles a day, many days not over half a mile, and we lost a boat with provisions, and we lost some provisions out of another boat; we struck a rock and turned in the stream enough so the swift water carried quite a lot of it away, and by the time we got |
