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Show 840 " A. Well, on the upper -- above Grand Junction different places, just small row boats, flat bottom light boats, because there is not much water in the county rocky and shallow. " From Grand Junction down we had just a common raft, made of four loge. We were in Grand Junction -- I had been prospecting around Ouray, and mining, and a men named Jack Summer, who was with Powell's first party, in 1869, was down around that county, and was telling, talked for years about a big mine in the Grand canyon; I had heard about this, and had a little time, and I went down to Grand Junction to see him. " He wasn't there, but I not acquainted with Emerson. and Duke, and Mr. Emerson suggested, ' Let's go down the Grand canyon and see it.' He was a grown- up intelligent man, who didn't know anything about the Grand canyon except what he had heard. I didn't know anything about it, either. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. What your was this? " A. That was in 1888, the summer of 1888." R. 1894. At this time there was some placer mining done up the river from Moab, in the LaSal Mountains and the Slue Mountains, and be expected to stop there and do some prospecting, and that was one of the reasons he went down on the raft. When he got down he found there were two or three men placer mining with rockers. He could see it wouldn't say, so he kept on going. He stared at Grand Junction, Colorado, and came down the Grand River, that is now called Colorado, stopped at Moab, and couldn't get a boat there. R. 1985. He couldn't go any farther without a boat, and so went |