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Show Record came down the San Juan. These other men were all with pack animals. I helped to put most of them across the river. John P. Hite testified on re- direct examination as follows: 3639 low: I was last at Hite in April, 1915. At that time there was not anybody in there but Frank Orr, Bert Seebold, Mr. Shaw and some men that were doing some work. On the round trip that I made to Lees Ferry, and came back, Jeremiah Johnson was with me on the trip coming back. We had 3640 four boats at least, and a party of 13 men. Besides the round trip to Lees Ferry I made two other trips to Lees Ferry coming back overland. One trip was with a man by the name of Turner. It was right after high water in 1909 or 3641 1910. We went down in a very good boat. The second time I went down to Lees Ferry was with a man by the name of Wyschuhn in 1905. The boats were very much the same 3642 as the other boats. The purpose of that trip was to relocate pro-perty that Mr. Stanton had lot run out. The purpose of the Turner trip was to go down to Lees Ferry to see what that man Spencer was doing. On the Wyschuhn trip, the boats were brought from Greenriver in wagons down North wash to the Colorado River. There were three boats and ten men. This trip from North wash to Lees Ferry was made in high water. We had no danger from rocks or anything. We stopped to make locations. I think we could have made the trip in two days if we had kept going. We had no accidents. If you did not handle your boats just right in those big sand waves they would 3644 capsize. The boats we had were not decked over. On the second trip the water had gone down considerably, but we still had plenty of water. We saw Mr. Spencer at Lees Ferry. He had a kind of a dredge working. Mr. Spencer had a big steam boat 3645 at the mouth of Warm Creek to haul coal in to run this mud machine. I just saw it standing still. I only saw it the once. |