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Show 904 your feet on slick boulders ( and aiid ) , pull boat an incvh ait a time out of the shallow into deeper water at head of the rapid . ( R . . 3567 . ) Post office established at Hite in June or July , 1889 j he was ( postmaster postinaster ) , and mail brought in by saddle ( ami tund ) pack horses from Greenriver . He was postmaster until September , ( 1896 1890 ) ; and during that time all mail . brought in overland . Does not believe to exceed 25 people in whole ( com- com ) munity post office served , including surrounding mountains cow prospectors and ( trap- trap ) camps , , camps , , pers . ( R . 3568 . ) Territory served , farthest point down river , the mouth of San Juan ; cow camps on Elk Mesas about 60 miles ; ( Starr's Starrs ) ranch , 20 miles up in the Henry Mountains ; up the river to North Wash ; about 50 miles square . Placer miners and trappers located down near San Juan ; come up river by towing boat . ( R . 3568- 3569 . ) Went up river from Hite during first year as far as North Wash . ( R . 3569 . ) Six or eight men placer mining . Lived on Colorado River from December , , 1888 , to September , 1896 . ( R . 3569-3570 . ) Only ( change chantre ) in character of mining on river was at Good Hope Bar . ( R . 3570-3571 . ) During ( the Itbe ) eight years , farthest down river he went was to head of Aztec Rapids ; considered ( the t4e ) worst rapids between the Cataracts and Lees Ferry . . ( R . . 3571 . ) Very swift , shallow water , lots of boulders ; ; no definite channel . |
