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Show Record to the canyon at a point just above Bull Frog Rapid, and this material consisted of the hull, the buckets, pumps, five engines, eighty- two tables for saving gold, the amalgamator, settling tank 2203 and plates. We had an ice plant on shore for the purpose of keeping supplies from spoiling. We put in a telephone line between the two bars where we were working and built a flat bottom boat, light draft boat, and would take the scow and load it up with material and pull it back up. The scow had a windlass 2204 on it which was used in unloading. We had no difficulty with 2205 sand bars in taking this scow upstream. I can't tell how many tons the heaviest engine weighed, but the heavier pieces of 2206 horses. While we were building the hull of the dredge there were fourteen or fifteen capenters, ship builders, from San Francisco. After that we used only the dredge men and miners. 2207 There were about eight of those man. There dredging operations continued down there for about eight or nine months, when the 2208 concern went into the hands of a receiver. When I last saw the dredge it was there on the lines where we had put it in, except that it had been moved up or down a few hundred feet. We did not work the banks of the river with the dredge; only the river bed. We got around with the dredge several times, but being as big as 2209 it was we had a job getting it off. Since the visit to which I have just been referring, I have been back on one trip to Lee's Ferry and along the mesa toward Escalante. Escalante has a popu- Lation of fifteen hundred people, maybe more. During the time the dredge was being operated we did not dam the river and thus operated the dredge with the river in its natural condition. 2210 ( Here the witness described in detail how the dredge operated.) The rock that came out in the course of our dredging was thrown back into the river, sometimes in the channel, sometimes to one 2211 side of the channel. While we were operating the dredge the only 285 1402 |