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Show Record The hearing was resumed at Washington, D. C. on November 12, 1929. 3560 Homer J Hite testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I am 63 years old. I live in Oklahoma City at present. 3561 I am a traveling salesman. I lived at Hite, Utah, in 1888. I left Wichita, Kansas, and went to Greenriver, Utah, by railroad, and from Greenriver to Hanksville by wagon and horseback. Between Greenriver and Hanksville, 60 miles, as settlers, I saw a couple of young men 18 or 20 miles out, or near the place where we crossed the San Rafael, and down the San Rafael several miles there were 3562 two cow camps. Hanksville was a little settlement of probably six or eight houses all told when I arrived there, with one store. From Hanksville I traveled overland to Trachyte Canyon and down 3563 Trachyte Canyon to Hite, a distance of 40 or 45 miles. At Hite I found there just a stockade logcabin, with a half a dozen men. They were engaged in placer mining. A few itinerant people came in there because of a new mining excitement. I assisted in placer 3564 mining. We shipped in a boiler and a couple of vacuum pumps. The equipment arrived about six weeks after I got there. I was at Hite when it was unloaded. It was brought over from Greenriver, Utah, by a twenty mule team that came down Trachyte Canyon. It was set up about 18 miles down the river on the Tickaboo bar. To get the 3565 equipment down to the bar we built a boat or barge and loaded the material on it. The boat or scow was about 20 feet long and about 10 foot beam and drew not to exceed five or six inches loaded. The equipment went down the river on that boat in the latter part of April or the 1st of May, 1889. I did not go on that trip. I saw them start. It was a rising stage of water. Prior to that time I had been down in the vicinity of Good Hope and Tickaboo in a small flat bottomed row boat. Between Hite and Good Hope there are a number of rapids. About a mile and a half below Hite was the first rapid of any consequence which was |