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Show Record it on down and distribute it to the boys along as we came. Sometimes we would bring the mail for the Strauss party after they come down there and they would at times come up and get the mail 4912 from us. In going up stream on the trips that I took during that period we made progress by rowing, poling and towing some. It is a little hard to state the percentage of the time that we would row and pole and tow on those trips. I can make a general estimate. It would depend on the stretch of river you were on. If you were on easy water you would row usually. If you were on swift water you might tow or you might pole. It would depend also on the ground you had to walk on and the stage of the water. In low water you had good ground a lot of the way and could tow along. You might get out and tow along just for a change. It is a change, going up stream, even if it is the same class of water, to row a while, tow a while and pole a while. 4914 Up to this time I have been describing incidents that occurred on either my first or second visits to the river. My best recollection would be that I went out the second time in either 1900 or 1901. And it was during this second trip of mine that I ob-served these Struass boats as I have detailed and that I took this trip with Mr. Ryan to the Good Hope bar and that I saw the Stanton party. I left the river on the second trip about May or June. I did not go in again that same year. I went in again in the spring of 1901 or 1902. On that visit I went to work for the Moquie Mining Company, who were operating the Olympia bar. On that trip we went into the river at Hite. We built a boat to get to the Olympia bar named the " Lucy B". This boat was about 28 feet long and 6 feet wide and about 3 1/ 2 foot sides. We took and engine and outfit to install in the boat, but didn't install it until we got to the Olympia bar. We took it down stream with us on the boat. We loaded the engine and outfit on the boat. We had two other boats and a 4916 raft and took all of them down. There were eight of us in the party On the Lucy B we loaded about two and a half tons of commissary |