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Show Record from the wall rock and our holes were above that vegetation. 3142 About October 8, 1920, I made an upstream trip from Rincon, being accompanied by Frank Bettett and W. B. Hay. We had a row boat about sixteen feet long, two feet deep and three and a half or four feet wide. This was about a ten or eleven mile trip and we took a day to it, rowing, towing and pulling upstream. We made the trip to bring down a raft that was stuck at Lake Canyon Rapid, and our purpose was to get there and salvage the material and the raft and bring them down. In getting the raft off, it was necessary to get out into the water, but I had no occasion to observe 3143 the Lake Canyon ledge. Where the raft stuck it was very shallow, only knee deep - not more. I had on a pair of high top rubber boots and was in the river quite a while before my feet got wet. It was a rocky bottom there and I would judge that we had to move our raft about twenty feet before we got it into 3144 deeper water. At Shock Rapid we were hung up on this trip. This raft was twenty feet long, eight or ten feet wide, and built out of logs fastened together with ropes and cables in order to make a kind of hinge and give flexibility. There was loaded on this raft a drill stem, weighing eighteen hundred pounds, a few drill bits, and that was about all. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master the witness Bennett testified: Our drilling equipment was run by a gasoline engine, a small affair that Mr. Bennett and others had taken down on a raft 3145 Different rafts were built each time. The first raft took down the gasoline engine and a drilling rig consisting of an engine, a wooden bull wheel, and the wooden frame of the rig. The wheels were of iron and they used the wooden part of the rig in building a raft. The first raft was in three or four sections, about ten feet wide and forty or fifty feet long, and took down the engine, 3146 drill stem, set of jars and a bit. They had a boat along with it, but did not half to pull it in. The river was up considerably at |