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Show 914 This trip was made about a year and a half after he built the boat at Grand Junction, Colorado. He didn't make any notes of his expeditions so that all of his statements are from memory and his memory might not be exactly right unless something happened to remind him. It was before the first Stanton Expedition. After reaching the mesa he went down on it to the Colorado River at the mouth of North Wash, passing through Hanksville. At that time Hanksville was a place of only a few settlers and a few scattered buildings. It was the only town, however, in that part of the country, the last town down the Dirty Devil, or Fremont River. R. 2165. He did not get any supplies at Hanksville as they already had them. After reaching the mouth of North Wash, he commenced prospecting, and his partner, jess Fuller, decided to go back and took with him the burros, leaving the horses. He stayed, together with Tom Hall, Claude Sanford, Bill Curry, Bob Farley, and a man named Nichols. R. 2165- 2166. He prospected and explored the country and found gold in the bars but not in sufficient quantities so a man could make much at it. The gold was flour gold and it was impossible to save it with the gold pan and quick-silver. R. 2166. While he was in the canyon there he built a small boat, or flat- bottomed skiff, for the purpose of crossing and running up and down the river with lumber that was purchased at Hanksville. " Q Did this lumber come in by way of the river? |