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Show Hyde- D 609 called the Honaker trail? A Yes. Q Tell me about that, please, and where it was located. A The Honaker trail, that is about seven miles, probably maybe a section and a half, by the Miller survey, from the bridge there south down the San Juan river. Q That is the bridge at Goodrich? A Yes. Out at what we call Big Point. That is Cedar Mesa, probably, on your map, I don't know. Honakers was placer mining in there, climbing a rope ladder down over the cliffs; they would take their supplies to the top, let them down with ropes, down the rocks, climb the rope ladder down and back; placer mining in the bottom of the canyon. They built a trail from the canyon -- I have been up and down it several times -- from their placer workings in the bed of the canyon to the top of the rim, which is about eleven hundred feet deep. We put an aneroid on it. Q The Honakers took their supplies down that trail? A Yes, as far as I know that is the way they got all their supplies. They got most of them that way, at any rate. Q Do you recall what year that was established? A No. I don't. I can't give you dates. Q Do you know of other trails being established by the placer miners? A Mendenhall made a trail there. Q Where is his, with reference to Honakers'? 2577 |