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Show Record Klondike and I started from Cass Hites, at Red Canyon, and went to the mouth of the San Juan. We prospected along as we went down and I think we got there the evening of the second day. 4972 We were five days on the whole trip. It took us two days to go down and three days to come back. We were prospecting both ways. When I was there in 1925 I did not see any other placer miners except a follow named Carpenter at Red Canyon. I did not see any other boats except our own. I saw no boats either coming down or going up stream. A. L. Chaffin testified for defendant on re- direct examination as follows: My brother, George Chaffin, was with me when I went into 4973 the river the first times and stayed there. He was there during that period with me and went on some of those trips with me. He was with me the next year and when on some of those trips with me. I spoke of one occasion when I assisted the Indians in fording the river at the mouth of Wilson Creek. I took the Indians across in a boat with their saddles and things, and towed their horses behind the boat. Their horses swam. I was paid for that. 4975 Thomas Fostheringham testified for defendant on direct examination as follows: I live in Salt Lake. I am 62. I was on the Colorado River In 1888 and 1889. We got to the river by Escalante and came down to the river at Hole- In- The- Rock. There were four of us in the party. We were hunting gold. We hauled lumber down to Hole- In- The- Rock besides our 4977 provisions, tools and machinery. After we got our stuff unloaded at Hole- In- The- Rock we built a boat about 38 feet by 16 or 18 feet. It was a large flat bottom boat and we had a tub probably 5 feet high and 6 or 8 feet around and there were four paddles that worked in this tub. We had an apparatus from the horse- power, cogs on it, which worked these paddles. That tub was something we took in there to use in placer 733 |