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Show 201 a brother- in law of Mr. Zonn, had ridden up the river from Zonn's camp, a point about seventy- five miles below. R. 483- 484. The next day a flood come down the river, washing away the water wheel at the placer mine. In 1911 he was located at Mexican Hat, back about fifty feet from the river, and his house was washed away by another flood. It was a substantial rock house and cost about $ 7,000,00. The water absolutely obliterated the building. R. 485. No heavy machinery was taken down the river in boats because of the fact that boats wouldn't float. If more than six hundred pounds were loaded on the boat they had to be lead around some of the rapids because of the hazard. The boats were propelled mostly by leading them around and sometimes we could row but in rough water they would pole them. R. 486- 487. Recross Examination ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 487- 488.) The river was dry for a period of about three weeks. There were no pools long the bed, wasn't a drop of water except where the Indians had dug for it, to water their ponies. R. 487. The water wheel taken down on a wagon. When he was working the placer claims there were to men besides himself living right at the mine in a little old rock house. The other placer miners living father down the river lived under the rim rock and they did not have any house and lived in tents. R. 488. The length of day in boating from Bluff to Mexican Hat, a distance of twenty- five miles, during high water in June, is fixed at ten hours. In low water the time required to boat the same distance is fixed at fifteen hours. R. 489- 490. |
