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Show Record was probably 20 or 25 feet long by 16 or 18 feet wide. They claimed the boiler and engine was 60- horsepower. I don't know the weight. Besides the boiler and engine they had supplies, tools, and so forth. I saw them afloat for a quarter of a mile. I think 5135 there were four men on the raft, two at each sweep. They had a couple of row boats with them. One row boat was on the side of the raft. There were men in the other one. The boiler was a common steam boiler, looked like 12 or 15 feet long. I don't know the size of the engine. I was again at Dandy Crossing in the nineties, I don't remember the exact date. It was in the winter. I excavated a race through Good Hope bar for the Cass Hite Placer Mining Company, 5136 and put in a water wheel to hoist the water for sluicing purposes. That must have been along after 1895. It was seven or eight years after my first trip. On my way down to do the work for the Hite Company I saw the boiler and engine that eight or nine years before I had seen loaded at Dandy Crossing. It was at Tichkaboo bar. I looked it ever. The Tickaboo bar is about three or four miles above the Good Hope bar. From Dandy Crossing to Good Hope bar I took by stock over 5137 a high trail. In making the race we used horse teams. We brought equipment to Dandy Crossing. That equipment, hay and grain and scrapers and plows, chains, and what we needed, went down the river in boats from Dandy Crossing to Good Hope. The horses we took down the trail. The trail was narrow, high and dangerous. We were lucky to got the horses down the trail. We had enough plows to 5138 operate eight or ten teams. The rafts and boats that we used for carrying our supplies and equipment down, were built by the party that was putting in the plant there. I hauled the lumber and timber. They made the rafts and put our hay and grain and stuff on them. The raft was 20 or 25 feet long by 16 or 17 feet wide. On that first trip we carried six or eight tons. In building that race, I was there a little over two |