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Show 969 BERT LOPER For Complainant ( R. Vol. 12, pp. 2306- 2337) ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2340- 2449) He resides at 73 South 2nd East, Salt Lake City, Utah, He is sixty years of age, was born in Bowling Green, Pike County, Missouri. Since reaching manhood he has been known as a practical miner, both quartz, placer and gold. He has operated as a miner in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. R. 2306. He is familiar with that section of Utah in and around the Green, Colorado, and San Juan Rivers, first entering that country in the fall of 1893. At that time he was employed at Rico, Colorado, and due to the panic decided to hunt his fortune on the San Juan River in search of gold. His first operations consumed about two months in the fall of 1893 on the upper San Juan, about twenty- five or thirty miles above Bluff, where he tested out a machine on the bars along there. When cold weather came he went back to Montezuma Valley for the balance of the winter. This was his only experience on the upper San Juan River, the rest of his experience being from Bluff down to the junction of the San Juan with the Colorado. R. 2307. In March, 1894, he freighted his stuff to what is now known as Honaker Trail, where Mr. Honaker and some associates had located a claim at the foot of that trail and he was employed in that company. " And early in the spring of 1894 we freighted our stuff to the rim of the canyon, and there was two or three of us young fellows at that time carried the stuff down from ledge |