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Show 241 He is acquainted with the Honaker Trail. It is about seven miles below the bridge at Goodrich. Before the trail was built, Honaker, who was a placer miner there, lowered his supplies over the cliff with a rope and descended and ascended the rope. Later the trail was built from the canyon to the top of the rim, a difference in elevation of about eleven hundred feet. So far as he knows they took all of their supplies over the trail. Mendenhall built a trail about one- half way between the Honaker Trail and the bridge. R. 608- 609. " Q. For what purpose was that trail established? " A. For the purpose all trails are, to ride ponies over and pack grub." R. 610. He has done some placer mining. The most successful equipment used by the placer miners was the little hand rocker lined with burlap sacks or wool blankets. Very little heavy machinery was used. He was in the country when the first drilling for oil was commenced by Mr. Goodrich at the mouth of Comb Wash. The road from Bluff to Comb Wash was constructed by donated labor, so that they could get the drilling machinery down there. The drilling machinery was taken into Bluff with horses ands wagons and eased down into the canyon with ropes or carried down. The wagon road was never made to the creek - none of it was taken in by way of the river that he knows of. Mr. Goodrich sent in another drill to the bridge, crossing at Goodrich or Mexican Hat Basin. The machinery was hauled in there by wagon. Steam power was used, wood being burned for fuel. All the freighting |