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Show Record mining. We had two decks on the boat. We slept on the lower decks and put most of our provisions down there. On the upper 4978 deck we had a carpenter's shop and a blacksmith shop with navil and tools and carpenter's outfit. We did our cooking on the upper deck. We had a hydraulic pump and hose, three or four different kinds of screens, two amalgamating boxes with seven amalgamators in each box. I would judge the load that we put on the boat there at Hite weighed two to three tons. We also built a small skiff boat there at Hole- In- The- Rock. After we got the boats built and loaded we went down the river in the neighborhood of 8 miles and we pulled in in an eddy and went to work above. We started down the river with our 4980 boats in December, 1888. I never heard of any the placer boys by name. Later on, the next trip we made, we moved down below the San Juan. I should judge the first place we stopped was about ten miles above the mouth of the San Juan. While we were at this first place we went up the river to Hole- In- The- Rock and over to Escalante for supplies. 4981 We went from Hole- In- The- Rock to Escalante by team and buggy. We hauled supplies by the river from Hole- In- The- Rock 4982 to this first place we stopped, 7 or 8 miles below Hole- In- The- Rock. Then we moved to a point below the mouth of the San Juan. It was a bar off to the side of the stream. We worked that bar for probably two months. While we were there we did not make any trips for supplies. We used the small boat that we built to go up to Hole- In- The- Rock and then bring supplies back from Hole- In- The- Rock to 4983 our first stopping place. The place we stopped the second time was about 10 miles below the mouth of the San Juan. While we were there J. R. Nielson |