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Show 934 He has never been back in Glen Canyon as far as the dredge since he left but has been from Lees Ferry as far up as the mesa back of Warren Johnson's and along the mesa toward Escalante. At that time Escalante was a town of possibly fifteen hundred people. During the time the dredge was working it was not necessary to dam the river, the dredge working in the river in its natural condition. The dirt that was dug up was carried in buckets to the grizzly which turned all the time, and fine sand was taken by the elevators and carried to the tables, and then a heavy stream of water running would then carry the fine sand on to the tables, thus saving what gold and platinum it contained; the heavy part [ of the rock] would run down out of the grizzly into the carrier, and was stacked behind the dredge with an apron or bucket, and was thrown back into the river. R. 2210. " Q What was the condition of the water around the dredge as to whether or not it was swift or slow water? " A It was medium slow water there; wouldn't have been any use to hunt up a settling basin if it hadn't been. The swift water carries the light gold down, when it comes to a broad place it sinks; that's the reason we were working in that stretch of the river." R. 2211. During the time the dredge was in operation he saw no boats traveling on the river except those used in operations running back and forth from the bar. They used the Hite Post Office; the mail coming in there by teams from Hanksville. Hite was down the river from the dredge about four miles. He occasionally went down to Hite and back, but he never went down there in a boat. He never saw mail come in to Hite. |
