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Show 4144 McDonald- D 2164 BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q How many years after you took the boat down the Grand river did you make this pack trip across the Green river? THE SPECIAL MASTER: How many years afterwards? A After I built this boat at Grand Junction? Q Yes? A Wasn't more than a year and a half after, I don't think. Q Year and a half after? A I never wrote down any notes or anything, or kept any account or anything. And you must remember it is kind of a puzzler to me to remember back such things as that, unless something happened. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Ask him this, if he knows. whether it was before Utah was admitted as a state to the Union. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Was it before or after the first Stanton expedition? A Oh, Lord, it was before that. Q All right, now, you got up on the mesa; after you got on the mesa then where did you go? A Went down on to the Colorado river. Q At what point did you enter the Colorado river? A We entered the Colorado river at North canyon -- North wash, they call it. |