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Show Record November, when I went to Richfield and Salt Lake for supplies, etc. We went up Hanson Creek from the river with a wagon. The road was poor but we managed to travel and were out at that time perhaps fifteen days, returning the same way we had gone out. We came back with supplies and took them to the California Bar, the lower end of which is just across the Colorado River form Hanson 3178 Creek some seven or eight hundred feet. On that occasion we drove our team and wagon across the river to the California Bar. This occurred about the first of December, 1898. It was not necessary to swim the horses, the river being shallow at that point if you knew how to go cross. I had on a former occasion crossed there 3179 with a horse by following the bar around. The water just came into our wagon box, wetting our bedding. When we came back and loaded our supplies, we put those that would be injured by water higher up in the wagon box so they wouldn't get wet. Aside from the work I did for the dredge company I was at the California Bar four or five years, staying there all winter. During that period supplies were brought by team to the mouth of Hanson Creek and boated across the river. I remember no occasion when the river was 3180 forded there except the one I have mentioned. Afterwards the chan-nel washed out a little deeper and we couldn't ford it. We had two boats there, one of which boats had formerly been used to haul coal across the river and was about twenty- eight feet long; the other was a light skiff. I bought an interest in the bar from Mike Ryan. The land was not patented. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Frank Bennett testified as follows: In our operations we took out gold. Sometimes I would take 3181 our gold out myself, and if we weren't going out we would send our gold out by registered mail if there was any amount of it. The post office was at Hite and we made regular trips about once a month to get our mail. We have walked up to Hite, but during ordi- |