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Show 816 He only stayed over night on the San Juan River and didn't cross the stream. He remember there was very little water in it; not more than two or three feet wide and possibly a foot deep. This completed his experience on the river. He has been on the lower Colo-rado, but has never been back to the upper river since the San Juan trip, with one exception, when he went back about 1895 with a placer mining outfit. On the trip he went about eight miles below the bridge at Greenriver to put in an amalgamator. It was a dry land dredge, a steam shove. run electrically. The outfit would handle about a yard of gravel a minute. They brought machinery down the river by wagon, came down on the west side, and crossed the river with it. The machinery weighed one hundred tons. They forded the river, he believes, in September or October, and stayed in the country for about a year. R. 1932- 1933. He operated the dredge nearly every day, and during this time he saw two outfits come down the Green River: One, MR. Galloway and his partner, who were bound through the canyon; and the other was Flavell and Richards. He employed about twenty men on the trip, and brought the supplies in overland from Greenriver. After this work with the dredge, he returned to Colorado. R. 1934. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. The dredge was abandoned? " A. It was finally sold and moved to Idaho. |