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Show 617 In 1897 fitted up a boat at ( Hanksville HanIcsville ) ; brother took boat to mouth of Last Chance Creek from Hite ; horses taken overland . Boat had been hauled in overland ; supplies came in wagon and taken ( down clown ) in boat . Operated placer claims about three months . Winter of 1897 and 1898 Stanton boats passed the camp . ( R . 2257-2258 . ) Party of prospectors came to camp in January 1898 , in a small boat , and he took them out with saddle ( , . ) horse and pack animal to Escalante . ( R . 2258-2259 . ) Nathan Galloway visited camp on his way up river in a small boat ; going up by rowing and ( towing towirg ) . ( R . 2260 . ) Saw two or three small row boats on the river . ( Upstream 'Upstream Upstream ) from Last Chance to ( Hall's Halls ) Crossing , 60 miles , in boat , rowing and towing ; hard work . Went out to Hanksville and north overland . ( R . 2261-2262 . ) June , 1898 , from Hite to Hanksville with pack train and down to Good Hope Bar on horseback ; worked for Good Hope Mining Co . , sluicing gravel bars . ( R . 2262 . ) Average of 20 men working there ; took supplies from Hanksville to ( Hite Elite ) , and then down river in a ( 20-f 20f 20-ft 20ft ) . row boat . Took boats upstream by rowing and towing . ( R . 2263 . ) Met Mr . Stanton and party doing assessment work on river in vicinity of Good Hope and Hite . Summer of 1898 ( , . ) ( R . 2263-2264 . ) Mr . Stanton was using boats up and down river in assessment work and they were operated by |