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Show 867 of eight or ten inches. He used the water of the San Juan River in connection with their mining operations, by lifting it with a Henry R. Worthington pump; and the water he used didn't make any perceptible difference in the stream flow at that time. R. 2042. This water was used in the placers, and would percolate back down to the river. Of course the pumps were small; only four inches. He was down there two different periods. In May he didn't do any operating, but when he came back about the first of July, he operated in August while the water was very low. At this time he didn't divert the entire flow of the San Juan River. R. 2043. He refers to the year 1904. He left the placer claims on horseback in May, went to Chicago and returned probably on horseback [ in July]. The sand and silt in the water of the San Juan River used in his mining operations caused a lot of difficulty by cutting out the packing of the pumps. This occurred any time he operated; which would be three or four weeks in the summer; that was the time he was there personally. R. 2044- 2045. He went back on the river in 1905, and used the river to transport his sluicing hopper. R. 2045. This hopper weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds, and it came into the San Juan River about fifteen miles up from his camp by freight wagon. This machinery arrived at what was called Recompense Camp. He constructed a raft |