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Show 936 ' bridle' the nose of the boat would run out here, he could walk along here, he didn't have anybody to steer, so he had to arrange some way of keeping the boat from pulling ashore all the time; that's the way he done it. " He would be going up the river, he told me, - he didn't care how long he was gone - " THE SPECIAL MASTER: Never mind what he said. " A He would be months and months from Lees Ferry up as far as Hite's. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: That can go out. " MR. FARNSWORTH: I don't object to it staying in." R. 2213- 2214. He recognized picture No. 215 in Complainant's Exhibit No. 11- D. He believes it looks like the Hite operations, part of the dredge, or the leavings of the dredge, where it was wrecked, and it is placer ground there. " Q I am talking about this ( indicating). " MR. FARNSWORTH: Indicating the structure there. " A No, I don't recognize that picture." Cross Examination. ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2215- 2226). At the time he was camped at North Wash he took his boat up the river at times above the rapids and ran some of the rapids for the sport of it. The boat used was constructed at the mouth of North Wash from lumber obtained either from Hanksville or Kaneville and which was hauled down to the mouth of North Wash overland with teams. The boat was constructed for the purpose of traveling back and forth across the river during high water. " Q What did you want the boat for? " A To cross the river; in high water we couldn't pros- |