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Show Hyde- D 608 A What was the question? BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q So far as you know. A The only way I know of them taking them in was by burros and pack horses. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did you sell a good many of these placer miners merchandise at your store? A I sold considerable, yes sir. Q Did you see them come to your store with their ponies and their burros? A Yes I did. Q How far was you store from the river? A Which store do you mean, at the mouth of Comb, or at Bluff City? Q The mouth of Comb. A Our store at the mouth of Comb was, when first went there, probably one hundred and fifty yards from the bank of the river one end of the cable; and then, after the floods took away our cable boat and it out the bottoms out, my father left there, and went on top of the first rim rock, twelve foot above the river, but right on the river bank, and built another one. Q Do you know anything about the establishment of a trail there 2576 |
