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Show Record then I took them from Bluff down in a boat mostly. They were 469 supplies for the mining camp. There were other placer mines down there at that time. There were probably 150 men working on the river. They were scattered up and down the river for 50 miles. Most of their supplies were brought in by wagon to Bluff and from Bluff on down by boat. For the first two years most of the supplies were taken down by boat. After that we got a good road built and we hauled supplies down with a wagon. I did not use heavy machinery the way I placer mined. The heaviest piece was a water wheel. There 470 were two boilers brought in there. They only used one. They were brought down by wagon. They used the boiler to get the water out of the river and to sluice with. The wheel goes on boats, sitting right in the river. The mines are not now in operation. The miners go down sometimes during the winter. I have been in the oil business in that country 25 miles west of Bluff right on the San Juan River. I have two wells right on the edge of the water. I drilled those wells myself under the 471 placer law from 1909 to 1912. I used casings, drills and drilling rigs. The equipment was brought down by wagon. We had the road built in there at that time and it was all brought down by wagon on the North side of the river. 472 A. L. Raplee testified on cross examination as follows; The nature of the supplies that I and the other men operating on the river in placer mining prior to the construction of the wagon road consisted of flour, coffee, tea, sugar, shovels, picks, drills, lumber and some powder. I had a wheel that furnished the power to pump the water up about 16 feet. I had no bucket. 473 I made the wheel myself out of lumber. I got the lumber and the iron portions of the wheel from Rico. I was operating there approx-imately 3 years before we got the road built. During that time I brought my supplies in to Bluff by wagon and then down the river by boats. There were 150 men operating there on the river at that time. I had probably 8 or 10 men working for me. The balance of - 67- |