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Show 3392 Nims- D 1417 BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Go on down the river; tell us anything else of interest in the trip. A About two- thirds down the river we would stop occasionally when we would see a sandbar we would stop occasionally and pan the dirt, see if there was any gold in it; some of them we found colors; some we did not. Q Principally did not? A Yes. MR. FARNSWORTH: May he did. Let him tell. A About two- thirds of the way down, four of us staked out a claim of eighty acres, and I named it the New York State placer mine. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Was that in the bed of the stream? A It would be in high water, yes; it was just above the water at that time; when we went down the first trip, it was under water. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did you ever follow up that claim? A No. Hyslop told me,- when I got to Lees Ferry I wrote out-- made out the claim as near as I could on a piece of paper that Johnson gave us, and gave it to Hyslop, and he said he would take it to Moab and have it recorded. Moab, I believe, was the mining district for recording that section. |
