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Show Raplee- C 478 need just as much as you would need in operating a claim up the river? A Yes. SPECIAL MASTER: If it was the same size claim. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Did these claims, placer claims, vary very much? A They do, your know in some places where the ground is scarce. Q These various claims down the river were about the same size as your? A Yes, they were all just about the same. ( Last question and answer read.) BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Have you knowledge as to approximately how many such claims there were? A By George, there was a good many of them; I don't know,-- I suppose there is two or three hundred. Q You spoke of there being two hundred -- I think you mentioned men working on these placers? A Yes. Q Men would come and go, I take it? A Oh, yes, they would come and go. Q When you speak of two hundred, you don't mean it was the same two hundred the time? A Oh, no; the most of it was miners that would came down there in the winter; that is when the big rush would be, when they would come down there to work through the winter, to get out of the snow, and as soon as it got warm in the spring they would 2444 |