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Show 4135 McDonald- D 2155 Q Did you continue down from Hardyville, down to Fort Mojave? A Yes. That was the end of the wagon road; they said, " Leave the wagons, we don't need them;" it is a trail up the side; you can't go next to the river; there is no bottom there; you have to meander around; it is an old Pony Express trail that run up the river from Cottonwood island. Q This wagon road that you speak of, at what point in your journey did you get on the wagon road? A We got on it at Eldorado canyon, or at Las Vegas spring. Q Then followed that down? A Then followed that down. Q To Hardyville? A No, Couldn't get to Hardyville; the road don't go there. We could have turned off and went the other way, in place of going down the river, in towards where Searchlight is. This road had been an old emigrant road going into California in early days, in southern California, where some of the people, I guess lots of them, had split up in there, some of them went the northern route and some that. We went to Las Vegas to make time, and to make the watering of the cattle and getting them through in as good a shape as possible. When we got to Eldorado canyon, the quarts mill, -- they hauled the quartz from way above, up in |
