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Show would get out of the boats 559 and push them along , , or take them 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 remembers one instance where a dike or stone ledge goes across the river , and one of the men took a shovel and crossed it . Waded clear across the river to see if he could find an opening for our boats to go through . ( R . 1900 . ) From Crescent Creek down to Lees 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 Sumner one of ( Powell's Powells ) ( origi- origi ) nal men . There was no machinery there , except at ( Ticka- Ticka ) boo Bar , where he saw a thirty ( 'or or ) forty horsepower pump . He ( didn't didnt ) know to whom it belonged but knew that Mr . Stanton was interested in it . All of the members of the party staked out placer claims but he never followed the placer claims up . ( R . . 1901 ) He ( doesn't doesnt ) believe there was a post office at Hite at that time but mail would come in from ( Haiiks- Haiiks Hanks- Hanks ) ville with travellers . He ( doesn't doesnt ) recall getting any mail there but does recall a post office at Lees Ferry where he got mail . They also received ( sup- sup ) plies at Lees Ferry that came in from Kanab or Johnson , Utah , by wagon . The next time he saw Glen Canyon was in 1-8911 when he was with a prospecting and ( mining miuing ) ( com- com ) |