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Show 982 " Q On one occasion when you were on this trip was it necessary for you to bring some supplies a short distance by boat? " A We had a pack train meet us at certain points along the river; the last place the pack train was due to meet us was at the mouth of Piute canyon, twenty- one miles from the junction; the pack train always beat its time about a day, [ R. 2330] until this time it was four days late; we was running out of grub; and one night about sun down we heard a shot fired, and here came the packer horseback, but no packs; he came down and he told us the big rains had made part of the trail up the big cliff up Piute canyon slip off, and he couldn't get his packs out. " So Mr. Trimble came to me and asked me what we had better do. " I says, ' Have him come into Spencer canyon;' - that was where the pack train had met us the last time, three weeks before. " We had to take the boat back up the river and get those supplies. " Q How did you get the boat up the river? " A We drug the boat up the river the next morning; they gave me the bulk of the grub they had left, and I stripped down to my B. V. D.' s and was preparing to go up and take the boat up the river; when I got up to where the boat was, Mr. Hugh Miser, the geologist in our company, was up there, also in his B. V. D.' s if it hadn't been for Mr. Miser, I don't know how many days it would have taken me to get up. " That is what you call a heart breaking trip. " Q How many miles was it? |
