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Show 935 He was back in Glen Canyon four or five years after the dredge ceased operations for the purpose of placer mining. On that trip he went in on horseback with a pack outfit by way of Escalante and at another time about half way between the dredge and the San Juan River. On the trip into Glen Canyon he stayed about three months, using what he terms a crevicing iron for the purpose of saving the gold from cracks in the bed rock where the swift water had washed it during high water periods. " We use a long iron called a crevicing iron. We pull that out, and maybe in an hour's time I get ten dollars' worth of gold, but it don't last; it might be two or three years before I could do that again." This type of operation is called sniping. That was the last time he was in there. " Q The three months you spent in there that time, did you see any travel on the river in boats? " A Yes, I saw an old fellow named Meskin, him and his dog; I saw him several times; he passed by the camp several times." R. 2213. Meskin had a small, light, flat- bottomed boat that drew two or three inches of water; he did not carry many supplies, not much of anything. He was prospecting and mining along the river and stayed there for years. He saw the prospector take his boat up stream. " Q How did the take it up? " A Pull it along. He said he put on a bridle - the line was hitched from the bow here to a piece coming out here ( indicating), rope hitched to the pins here; he pulled - it was only a small, light boat; fastened the line that he was pulling with and regulated it so when he pulled on the |