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Show Nielsen- D 443 A For their own use, the miners. Q Beg pardon? A For mining people. Q That is, there were mine prospectors? A Yes sir. Q Never was any boat line, anything like that, run? A No sir. Q Just individual prospectors? A Yes sir. Q Did you see those same boats go back up the river? A They never went back up. Q Why not? A Well, they couldn't get back up, had no way of pulling them back; high water took them down, they couldn't get back up without being towed up. MR. FARNSWORTH: Do you claim this man is a competent boatman? Does he know about boating? Don't want to take up time with these objections, but his competency has not been shown to give such answers. MR. BLACKMAR: Well, possibly that is so. SPECIAL MASTER: Well, for whatever it is worth; he has been in the county forty- nine years, more or less; he can tell the general condition. I don't suppose he is a competent boatman. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q you said you had been engaged as a freighter. Where did you operate freighting, and what did you carry? 2409 |