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Show 1107 he built the machines, set them up and ran them. R. 2607 When he left Lees Ferry there were others whom he had broken in that could run the amalgamator. R. 2607- 2608 " Q. Did they take out gold in any merchantable quantities? " A. No. sir." R. 2608 The president of the company was Dr. Herbert A. Parkin of Chicago, for whom he had been working for about twelve years, or since 1908; until about 1920. He built three machines for him in Chicago. Mr. Parkin is dead. Mr. Freeze was employed as superintendent of machinery. He left Paria about the twelfth of December, 1911, and at that time the mining at Paris was closed down, R. 2608 Being in the office of the company all the time, both in the camps at Lees Ferry and Paria and then in Chicago, he was in a position to know whether Dr. Parkin had operated either at Lees Ferry or at Paria after he had left Paria. Of his own knowledge he does not know what become of the Charles H. Spencer boat. R. 2609 He did not handle any correspondence for Dr. Parkin, nor deal with any people with reference to this boat. He does not know whether Dr. Parkin ever sold the boat to any one. While at Lees Ferry he had occasion to observe floods in the Colorado. He saw the river come up. " I didn't measure it myself |