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Show Record canyon, about three miles. In going up stream on those trips we either rowed or 4903 pulled or towed. The bar was about 45 feet above the channel of the river. That fall, about October, I returned to the river again and stayed there to about May or June. I came down to the river at the mouth of Hanson creek and again worked the Moquie bar. Our 4904 supplies were brought in the same way. The boat when loaded drew about 15 inches of water. Aside from the trips to Hanson creek for supplies, Mr. Ryan from the California bar came down and I went with him up to good Hope, about 21 miles, after the mail in a boat and back. Going up stream we made progress by rowing and towing and some 4905 poling. That boat was not the same boat we had the year previous. It was Mr. Ryan's boat, about 16 feet long and about 3 1/ 2 feet wide. It was flat bottom and very light draft when not loaded. It would 15 inches when loaded. We would load it pretty heavy. I knew William Mitchell. He came in the second fall 4906 that I was there with a load of supplies to Hanson Creek, and brought in a boat that he put together and equipped it with a steam boiler and engine and loaded it with mining supplies and started down the river, went down the river to the Klondike bar. I did not go with him. He was working a bar farther down the stream than I was. I took short trip with him in his boat. He took us on a ride after he got it equipped there at the side of the Moquie bar. After he got the boat loaded and started on his down stream trip I would think he had a load of about three tons of commissary supplies and mining equipment, such as a car and track for hauling gravel, the steam boiler and the engine, with which he was then running the boat, picks and shovels. The boat was about 4907 26 feet long and 10 feet wide. I would say it drew from 18 inches to 2 feet of water when loaded. I don't remember what month it was but it was in the fall or the fore part of the winter. |