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Show Record camp that had lost his outfit traveling up in the rapids and had climbed the walls for days trying to get out, and finally, at the 3579 mouth of Dark canyon, he made him a raft of railway timbers and started that and fortunately came through. Homer J. Hite testified on cross examination as follows: The trappers that I spoke of that got their mail at my post- office, trapped beaver and otter principally. I saw them at 3580 times with their skins. The trappers would usually come up to Hite in their boats in the spring and prepare their hides, and then take them overland from Hite to Greenriver. That continued during the eight years that I was down there. When I stated that I towed my boat up the river most of 3581 the way, I meant that we rowed it a part of the distance. Occa- Sionally we raised a bed blanket for a sail. That was all we knew how to make for a sail and in quiet waters we could use it. I think on two occasions I saw other men on the river using a sail of some kind. The equipment that I had in my mining operations was set up at some particular place on one of the bars that I was working, and at times when there would be a rise in the water that would come sufficiently high to make operations difficult, I would suspend until there was a recession of the water. Those are the interruptions to my work that I spoke of and had in mind when I stated we did not 3581 work or our work was suspended, besides delays from lack of equip 3582 ment, and want of help. In building the scow or boat I used two inch lumber on the bottom, the sides part of the way up were two inch, the bends were two by sixes, the frame of the boat and the rest of it was inch lumber, about 12 inches wide. From the level of the bottom of the boat I built it up about three feet. The heavier timber that I used for the bottom of the boat and a part of the way up were nailed to the heavier keels, two by six keals. With the 20 mule team we brought in a 10,000 pound steam |