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Show 791 but dropped down and camped on the east side of the river just opposite a sand- bar. They were pretty tired and had done a day's work; it was getting dark, and so they stopped there. R. 1886- 1887. His recollection is that they got to Warm Creek about one or two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, then dropped back down stream to the spring he spoke of, and made the cache of supplies on the east side of the river. His men were to pick up these supplies with small boats that they were using and take them where they might be required in their work; that would be at the mouth of Warm Creek and on up Warm Creek to the plateau above. At the time he left these supplies there he knew of no trail or road up or down the river on that side, and he has no knowledge of such a trail or road at this time. R. 1887- 1888. Redirect Examination: ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1888- 1889.) The boat he has testified to was designed by the Lighthouse Service, and the design was sent to the Edison Company in Los Angeles, California, who let out a contract to a firm in Wilmington [ California], named Fellows & Company, he believes. R. 1888 Mr. LaPue was along on the first trip as far as Warm Creek. R. 1888. Upon viewing Photograph No. 260 of Exhibit 11 D, which was taken August 9, 1921, he decided that his first trip was taken at that time, instead of in July, as he before testified. |