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Show 5289 Chaffin- D 3300 1899 we worked at dredge. Q Stanton dredge? A Yes sir Q Did you anything to do with getting supplies in there? A Yes sir. Q How did they come in? A The supplies, we had them come in from Greenriver, Utah, overland. Q By way of Hanksville? A By way of Hanksville. Q At what point did they get on the river? A They got on the river at, I would say, about a mile and a half above Bull Frog rapids. It will show on your map. Q How far from the camp of the dredge? A They shot a road off the ledge there, and came through by the middle mountain of Henrys, down that creek to Kane spring. From there they came across the desert and shot a road down the ledge and unloaded the stuff there. Q They had a barge they used to handle this drill Machinery up and down the river. They used this barge to move the stuff up the river about a mile and a half. They had a cable or a telegraph wire fastened up there, and had a windlass on the barge, and let her down where this was, and |