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Show ever ( bean been ) able to do ( down doivii ) ( 918 91S ) to ( Hanson Elanson ) Creek , even on foot . It is possible , however , to get ( from froin ) Hite down to Hanson Creek with a pack train by going ( up tip ) Smiths Fork , climbing up on the mesa and ( coining coniing ) down to Hanson Creek . There is shallow water at Dandy Crossing in the winter , and ( he lie ) has ridden a horse across there . Dandy Crossing is a regular crossing used by travelers , and there was a ferryboat there most of the time he was in that country ( , . ) ( R . 3632 . ) Cross examination ( R . Vol . 20 , pp ( , . ) 3633-3638 ) : At Lees Ferry he spent three or four days working on an engine for Mr . Stanton . He did not know what the trouble ( with ivith ) the engine was . They got it to running , however , but it ( didn't didnt ) have sufficient power to run against the current . ( R . 3633 . ) After they got started on the trip , it did not run at all . And he had to pull this big motor boat the entire distance up from Lees Ferry , practically ; Mr . Stanton hired some extra men and they rigged oars and rowed it where they could , but every bad place they had all hands to get on the line and pull it . So that it was rather a ( "white white ) ( elephant" elephant elephant ) on their hands . ( Would Wotild ) not say the motor would not run , because he did see it running , but it simply did not have the power to pull itself up . ( R . 3633-3634 . ) The motor would run because he saw it run at Lees Ferry , but after leaving there they did not try to run it . ( R . 3634 . ) During the placer boom on the San Juan River , some of the placer miners came down on the Colorado and spent some time on the bars there . |