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Show Record river pretty much all of the time and from 1908 until 1911 I was there off and on. I made the trip top the river which I have mentioned in my testimony in 1917 and have been there a time or two since, but have made no trips of any importance since 1917, when my real boating experience there ceased. During the years that I was placer mining on the river I sent gold out, brought in out to Loa and Richfield; sometimes I would ship it out with the teamsters, but as a rule I would bring it out myself. Continuing his direct examination Mr. Chaffin continued: When I went to the river in 1917 I didn't see one else 3321 on the river except Mr. Bennett and a man named West. There were more people on the river in the winter of 1894 and 1895 than at any other time within my recollection. When I was there in 1908 there were perhaps a dozen men on the river between Lee's Ferry and Hite in addition to the crowd that we had working there. In 1917 I was only on the river two or three weeks. I went to Hite on that trip, and it seams to me that Mr. Lawler or Mr. Tom Humphreys 3322 was at Hite; we saw no one else. During my acquaintance with the Colorado River I have no knowledge of any machinery or supplies being brought upstream from Lee's Ferry except just enough supplies to make the trip, and I have no knowledge of any machinery or supplies being brought from Green River or Moab down through Cataract Canyon. In 1896 I went over to the San Juan River to a point called Cottonwood, which was close to Gable Camp. I went over from Hall's Crossing with horses, accompanied by a Ute Indian by the name of 3323 Joe Bishop. After I got to the San Juan River I traded one of my horses for a boat and traded the other horse to an Indian for some blankets. We went prospecting down the San Juan River and I was pretty much disgusted with it and went on down the San Juan River to the Colorado river and back up. I made this trip in the first part of December from Cottonwood, which is located forty or fifty 3324 miles up from the mouth of the San Juan. I spent less than a week 459 |