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Show Record Red Canyon. Mr. Adams was then at his place in Red Canyon but wasn't placer mining. When I came up the river from Lee's Ferry there were some people placer mining where Russell, Monette and I had placer mined. They worked there for a while and then went 2360 out by wagon from the old Stanton dredge. My supplies came to the river at Hite from Hanksville or Green River, and I would drag them up the river in my boat. The post office at Hite consi-sisted of two log cabins at the head of a bar approximately two miles long and in some places maybe a quarter of a mile wide. 2361 That is where Hite and Gibbons had their little farm. Their field was on both sides of where Trachyte Creek comes down and they took their water out of Trachyte to irrigate their fields, twenty acres of which were under cultivation. There were about two hundred or two hundred and fifty acres on the bar that they didn't have water for. Photograph No. 199 in Exhibit D 11 is a 2362 picture of Hite as I saw it in the early years and as it is today, except that it is now abandoned. At Red Canyon the placer ground was on a high bar one hundred and ninety- five feet above the river. Below that bar there was bottom land and a little ranch of seven or eight or nine acres under cultivation, where we raised horse feed, had a small orchard and vineyard, chicken yard, etc. Picture 200 in Exhibit 11 D is a picture of that ranch. 2363 Cottonwood trees are around the cabin. The Red Canyon ranch 2364 lies twenty- two or twenty- three feet above the river. I lived at my ranch alone for seven years and during that period I traveled from Green River, Utah, to Lee's Ferry; made numerous trips to the Dredge; other trips to Olympia Bar; a trip or two to the California Bar; I never counted short trips like that. I had opportunity to observe river conditions at various stages of 2365 water. I did not always find a channel in the same place on those rivers. I observed changes in the channel at all stages except high water, when the channel is in one place, towit, always on the outside of the river. Sand bars left by high water |