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Show pany called the Denver , 560 Colorado Canyon , ( Mining Afining ) and Improvement Company . He came down the Green and Colorado ( Elvers Rivers ) , from Greenriver , Utah . ( ( E R ) . 1902 . ) Eight in the party . J . D . Best ( was -was was ) in charge ; Harry McDonald was the head boatman ; Elmer Kane , boatman ; L . H . Jewel , boatman ; McCormick , photographer ; John Jacobs , boatman ; John Hyslop , engineer , and himself , boatman . Mr . Hyslop and Mr . Kane had been ( with -with with ) him on the second Stanton expedition , also Mr . McDonald . ( Mr M-r Mr ) . Best when he got acquainted with him was in the real estate business in Denver , and they organized this company , partially through information received from Mr . McDonald . That company was known as the Grand Canyon ( Mining Ifining ) Company . There was a lost mine in the lower part of the Grand ( Canyon-that Canyonthat ) is , there was ( sup- sup ) posed to have been one down there , and this ( was -was was ) a trip for placer mining and general prospecting . ( ( E R ) . ( 1902-1903 1902-4903 ) . ) This expedition was intending to go down clear through the same as Stanton , to ( tide- tide ) water , the gulf of California . He ( Edwards ) went through to there . The survey was just a ( recon recon- recon ) ¬ naissance more of a photograph survey from Lees ( Perry Ferry ) on . No lines were run after they left Lees ( Perry Ferry ) , just simply reconnaissance with the ( pho- pho ) tographers taking the views , to show the ( charac charac- charac ) ¬ teristics of the canyon . The Best expedition left Greenriver , Utah , about July 10 . The equipment consisted of ( two bio ) boats , |