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Show 814 river Utah, had a pack train of horses and mule, and went through Hanksville to Kite, across the Colorado River, up White Canyon, and south to the San Juan River, about forty miles below Bluff, He was hired to make this trip by the Rio Grande Western Railroad. R. 1925- 1926 When he left the San Juan River he came back north to Red Canyon and to the Colorado River. He was accom-panied by an engineer from the railroad company; they picked up an old boat and went down the Colorado River fifteen or twenty miles, then towed the boat back up to where they had left their pack animals across the river, and returned to Greenriver, Utah, by the way of Hanksville. He followed the same route from Greenriver, Utah, to Hanks-ville, as he had done with the second Stanton Expedition, and he didn't see any change in the country as to popula-tion. He didn't see very many people. From Hanksville to the Colorado River on that trip, he went down the next canyon south of Crescent Creek [ North Wash], which brought them right down to Hite, but he doesn't know the name of the creek [ Trachyte Creek]. R. 1926- 1927. Hite and Dandy Crossing are the same. He crossed at Dandy Crossing and believes it was in December, 1892, or January, 1893. He didn't have to swim his stock across the river at this point, as they waded across. He saw no placer miners on the Colorado River. After they crossed they followed a trail up white Canyon to its head. then cut across south until they struck |
