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Show Record the occasion I have mentioned I know of no other instance when the water of these rivers was backed up. I have know of rocks falling in the spring of the years and during heavy rains in the 5394 summer, but have never known of any one getting hurt by any such thing, nor have I ever know of a boat being damaged or struck by falling rocks. During some seasons there is ice in the river, but I have seen seasons when there was little or no ice, and of course ice is an obstacle when that condition occurs. 5395 I am now developing a gold property owned by myself and associates in the Henry Mountains. We have a mill and have done sufficient work by shafts, tunnel and open cuts to know something of the extent of our ore bodies. The vein is a little over four feet wide and we are able to save eleven dollars per ton in gold on the plates. There is other gold mineralization in that section which has not been thoroughly explored or prospected. It is a 5396 sparsely settled country, the mountains of which are remarkably steep. My nearest neighbor is eight miles away. There is quite heavy timber there, extending twenty miles in length north and south and ten miles east and west. It is eighteen miles straight across the country from the Colorado River. My mine is near Mt. 5397 Pennell, where Trachyte Creek heads. The roads in that section that reach the Colorado River are very poor. You can go down Trachyte Creek, cross over to North Wash and down North Wash to Hite. Within the last few years I have also been on a road down 5398 Hall's Creek, which can be traveled by team and wagon. Practically the only road through the Escalante and Dirty Devil section is via Hanksville. Edwin T. Wolverton testified on cross examination as follows: The Wilmont as originally constructed and with the first en-gine installed in it cost possibly four hundred dollars; my second engine, towit, the seven and a half horsepower engine, cost two hundred seventy- five dollars; it cost me about one hundred and |