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Show 5481 the winter, worked some placer ground in what is known as Richardson valley. Q How far is Richardson valley from the Cisco pumping plant, if you know? A Probably ten or fifteen miles, that is, as near as I could estimate -- oh, no, it is more that that, -- Richardson valley to our camp, I have an idea it is twenty miles. Q In the spring of 1908, how far did you and your part-ner go that year? A Well, my brother and I were joined there at Richardson valley by a boy named Bert Buchanon; my brother got a mining job in the Lasal mountains, and eh had persuaded me to go down there because he had been down the river two or three years be-fore, and he wanted me to examine some country in Cataract canyon. And after he left, Mr. Bachanon and I rigged -- we had a good boat -- my brother built a good boar, -- small boat, but a good boat, a Grand Junction -- Q What kind of boat was it? A A skiff shape. Q About how long? |