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Show 932 on to the upper bar, rode it time and again, never got my feet wet." R. 2204. " Q Was this dredge brought in altogether? " A Oh, Lord no; it was built there, piece by piece; the heaviest thing was the engines, the two Fairbanks- Morse fifty- four horsepower, they were the two heaviest; then there was the sixteen, next, - or the thirty- two, then the sixteen, there was three on the starboard, two on the port side. The small one, the ten, was for running the dynamo." R. 2204- 2205. No boilers were used; just the engines, which were pretty heavy. He does not know the weight of the heavy machinery in tons but it required eight or ten span of horses on the wagon sometimes to transport the machinery overland. " Q When you would get a heavy piece of machinery like that to the river, how would you get it down from the highland down into the canyon? " A They let it down where they came down from the high land. They didn't care about getting up it, on the trail that we built, but getting down, - they could always get down. We had iron shoes made that went under the wheels, under all of them; we cut a trench down in the sand rock formation down the road a foot or a foot and a half deep, and used those shoes on the wheels bringing the loads down, coming down. " But going up, with the empty wagon, we had a block and a cable anchored above; the horses couldn't go up there and pull the empty wagons up; they would hitch them on the cable down here and drive the horses down to the foot and pull the wagon up, then take the horses up and hitch on and go. " That is the way they got up and down; but they could get down with the loads by putting those shoes on; they put the |