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Show - 3998 Kane- D 2018 of August. Q From Less Ferry, then where did you go? A We tied up the boat there; we stayed there for six weeks while Mr. McDonald and Best went back to Denver to see whether they should get another boat and go on down, or stop there and leave one boat and get a pack outfit and do the prospecting, get to this fairy story mine; that is something a prospector hears about; the original man had died, or he couldn't find it again. In fact, all these expeditions were primarily to find that mine; Mr. Brown, that was his intention; Mr. Stanton knew we had to have a railroad in there, and Mr. Brown did, to get his one out When Mr. Stanton was made chief of the party he was a railroad construction man, as well as a mining man, and he had more interest in the building of a possible railroad than in the mine; he didn't believe the mine was there. MR. FARNSWORTH: I don't think this throws much light on navigability. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did Mr. McDonald and Mr. Best eventually return from Denver? A Yes, and we decided to leave the boat there and get this pack outfit; we didn't think in was safe to go through with one boat. |