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Show 4334 Loper- D 2354 A We went down to where the old Stanton dredge is; we did some placer mining. Q That is located where? A That is at mile 37 -- no, mile 42, below North wash; it is forty- two miles below North wash; that is the best I can give you now. Q Go right ahead. A We place red there a while, about a month, and at the end of the month we took what little gold we had -- I did, rather. In the meantime our camera had got wet, the shutter rusted; we had to sent it back to the factory; so when we took this little gold out, went back up to Hite to send the company the shutter to our camera, when I got out I turned this gold and got the money for this gold in a check; I had another check; that is all the money I had, was in checks, and the 1907 panic came on at that time; I was a month or more getting any money on those checks; then we was one hundred and twenty- five miles from a railroad, so the provisions and supplies I sent for was too long a time in getting there, had to come by freight team. When I got to Lees Ferry, where I was supposed to meet Mr. Russell and Monette, quite a bit of time had elapsed after the time I was supposed to be there, so Mr. Russell had met an engineer he knew somewhere in Arizona, at Lees Ferry; he got what he needed from him, and continued on through the |