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Show Raplee- C 475 A Of the tonnage put through Q Yes. A Oh. With my outfit there I out through there, I guess, about fifteen yards a day. Q I mean tonnage carried on the river in boats. A Oh, the tonnage? Q How much would it be a week, would you say, if you can make an approximation? A Oh, I suppose probably couple of tons, such a matter. Q For the entire two hundred men? A Well, no for the entire two hundred men, but that is what was connected with me. Q You moved about an average of two tons a week? A Along about two tons a day Q Two tons a day? A You mean of supplies? Q Up and down the river. A I meant what I put through, what dirt I put through. No, wouldn't probably go up more than twice in a month. Q That would be something like twenty- four trips a year? A Yes. Q You would carry how much during those twenty- four trips? A One of those boats would hold about a thousand pounds, I guess. Q Then you would say that you probably carried on the river there something like twenty- four thousand pounds a year? A Yes. Q For three years be about seventy- old thousand pounds of freight 2441 |