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Show Kolb- D 800 Hite, at the post office; he had a post office there. And the next morning we looked for Loper, yelled, and no one answered. We saw the stock. We continued down the river; and Loper halled us from the shore possibly a little below his home. Q He and the Hites were both engaged in digging gold out of the river down there, or trying to? A I believe Case Hite did something in that line; I don't think John Hite did; I am not sure; he had a little ranch. Q Those were all the people that you saw between Greenriver and Lee's Ferry? A When we got down below the Crossing of the Fathers, when we climbed out we heard a shot at a great distance down the river, and then we heard a very strange, drumming noise, pounding; we couldn't imagine what it was; we went twenty miles downstream before we found out. At Warm creek there were some twenty men engaged in building a flat- bottom steam boat, or a boat, -- I think it was a steam boat; they only had the cribbing, or the outline, constructed at the time we got there. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Where was this? A About twenty- four miles above Lee's Ferry. Q Just exactly - pretty nearly exactly on the Utah line, would it be? 2768 |