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Show 748 a sand- bar, towing his boat with a line. " Q. From the mouth of the Green river to Greenriver, Utah, could you have taken this boat, in your opinion, up stream there?" " A. Possibly so. " Q. Well, could it have been rowed? " A. No, I should hardly think so -- certainly not rowed all the way; it would depend a good deal on the stage of water." R. 1793. He has not written any book on the Colorado River. R. 1793. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1794- 1798.) He encountered Berty Loper going up stream, somewhere near the middle of Glen Canyon, at the camp where he spent most of his time when with Stanton. Stanton was doing most of his prospecting there with a drill to find out where bed rock was in the stream. It was near the mouth of Trachyte Creek [ on the Colorado River]. R. 1794. Stanton didn't have any other permanent camp. The men working for Stanton were operating over possibly ten or twenty miles. He believes there was one party that was working down pretty well toward Lees Ferry. He doesn't know where the supplies for that party came from, and doesn't recall any boats that took supplies down the river at that time. R. 1795. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Were these placer mines extending as far down as Hole- in- the- Rock? " A. Yes, further down, sir. That company located |
