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Show Hyde- C 638 A No, while I was living at Montezuma. Q Then at what place on the river were the next placer operations of which you had personal knowledge? A You speak of placer operations. There never was what you would term an operation. Q Well, mining. A It was all prospecting. Q Prospecting. The men were down there working, panning gold, or using their cradles? A They were hunting it, yes sir. Q That is what I refer to. A The second place I ever seen then? Q Yes. A I don't know where it was; probably around the same section of the country, there. Q Where is the next place you saw such work? A On the San Juan river, along different bars, the gravel bars on the river. Q I understand all those placer operations were on bars? A Yes sir. Q Where, -- above or below Bluff? A Above Bluff. Q Then, as I understand you, you have no knowledge of any placer operations except those above Bluff? A Yes, I had; that was later. You wanted to know the first and the next. 2606 |