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Show 971 So Mr. Goodman who was a photographer and did the cooking went to Bluff; then the two boys and himself made a trip down the river in August, at a time when the river was very low. R. 2210- 2211. Upon leaving in May, 1895, he went to Bluff where he built a kiln of brick, and the brick was used at Bluff. He did this to help out the mining business and to get something to eat. His next trip into the San Juan Canyon was made in 1921. R. 2311. " Q Now, while you were in there during the years 1894 and 1895, did you go up and down the canyon any? " A I made a trip through the canyon, the first part of the canyon; the canyon breaks at Indian Farms or Clay Hill crossing, the canyon breaks and opens out there; we went on down past the Indian Farms down past the mouth of Copper canyon, and turned and came back. " Q You went from Honaker trail down to the mouth of Copper canyon? " A Yes sir. " Q How did you make that trip? " A There was three of us, George Edmundson, Bill Clark and myself; we had a little sixteen foot row boat, a very light boat, and we went down by boat; I don't think we had a roll of beds for the three of us, and very little grub; I know we had a pennyweight and a half of gold in a button. " I got down there to one of the placer parties that was down there, and I gave this pennyweight and a half of gold for ten pounds of flour. " We came back up the river on that ten pounds of flour." R. 2311- 2312. |