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Show 309 Henry Rauch, an assistant to Emery C. Kolb, and Frank Stout, a employs of the Southern California Edison Company, were also unofficial members of the party. Reverting to his first trip, he explains that Julius F. Stone, who had made a trip down the river in 1909 in company with Nathan Calloway, gave him the plans of boats used on that trip and the boats used by witness and his brother were made after the plans submitted by Stone and built in Michigan, from where they were shipped to Greenriver, Wyoming, by rail. The only difference in the construction of the boats used by him and the Calloway type boat used by Julius F. Stone was an amplification by addition of decks. R. 814- 815 Approximately three hundred pounds of supplies were loaded in the boats, which, together with photograph equipment, the weight of the boats and the compartments totaled about twelve hundred pounds per boat. R815 " Q. Approximately what weight of supplies did you put on when you completely resupplied? " A. Provisions for the trip would be approximately three hundred pounds; then we had our beds, and our photographic equipment was heavy; all supplies and equipment would weigh six hundred pounds. " R. 815- 816. The supplies and equipment taken was all that could be carried in the boats. The boats used on |