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Show 799 had been furn down the year before. He recalls that they were stuck on sand bars several times. He states that the lower river is more gravel; there is sand, too, but a good deal of fine gravel. When they would get on a bar they would get out of the boats and push along, or take then back and hunt for another place; some times taking a shovel, stirring up the gravel and sand, and letting the current wash them through. He remember one instance where a dike or stone ledge goes across the rivers; and no of the men took a shovel and crossed it. " Waded clear across the river to see if he could find a opening for our boats to go through." R. 1900. From Crescent Creek down to Lee's Ferry he saw possibly eight or ten people, outside of the party from Omaha. These people were engaged in placer mining. One of them was Jack Summers one of Powell's original men. There was no machinery there, except at Tickaboo Bar, where he saw a thirty or forty horsepower pump. He didn't know to whom it belonged, but know that Mr. Stanton was interested in it. All of the members of the party staked out pincer claims, but he never followed the placer claims up. R. 1901. He doesn't believe there was a post office at Rite, at that time, but mail would come in from Hanksville with travellers. He doesn't recall getting any mail there, but does recall a post office at Lee's Ferry, where he got mail. They also received supplies at Lee's Ferry, that came in from Kanab, or Johnson, Utah, by wagon. |