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Show 416 every once in a while it will cave, out back a little further, keep getting a little more current there all the time. I have seen that within twenty- four hours. " How long it would take to take six or eight feet of water away from what you would think a permanent bank, take it away and leave it dry. I don't know how long it would take it to do that; but I have seen the dry places, and the beavers' cache there; I know they wouldn't have the cache there if they hadn't the water." ( R. 1061 - 1062) He has done prospecting for placer on the rivers but has never done any mining because he did not find sufficient values to mine. He made three trips down the rivers prospecting, the first trip being in 1911. Material for building boats was hauled from Greenriver, Utah, to a place known as North Wash, just below the Dirty Devil or Freemont River. There was a road probably half way down, then just wagon tracks. From Greenriver City the supplies were hauled to Hanksville and then from Hanksville on down North Wash to the Colorado River. The describes the country between Greenriver, Utah, and Hanksville as desert in character. He saw one ranch on the San Rafael, but no settlement or towns. The first trip he made in 1911 was from Green River, Wyoming, clear down to the Dirty |