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Show Record sold merchandise to the miners. The only way I know of the miners 608 taking in supplies was by burros and pack horses. I saw them come to my store with their burros and ponies. I saw them load their merchandise. Our store at Comb wash at first was probably 150 yards from the river. After my father left there my brother and I built a store on top of the first rim rock, 12 feet above the river, 609 but right on the river bank. I am familiar with the establishment of the Honaker trail. The Honakers took their supplies down the trail as far as I know. 610 The Nendenhall trail was established by the placer miners. The trails were established to ride ponies over and pack grub. I have done placer mining myself. The placer miners did not have much in the way of machinery. Their usual equipment was the ordinary hand rocker. I was in the country when the oil drilling was going on. 611 I have been personally interested in that and am now. The first well drilled was at Goodrich, about 200 yards from the water's edge. 612 It gushed at 287 feet. That started the oil boom there. I was not personally interested in that drilling enterprise only as a citizen. The material for the drilling was brought in by horses and wagons. None of that went down the river that I know of. This same man at Goodrich drilled a second well at the bridge crossing 613 at Goodrich. It gushed. The material for that well was hauled in by wagon. They used steam power. As fuel they burned drift wood that came down the San Juan River. That well flowed 3 or 4 months. It was never put on a pump. We went on drilling, drilled 614 19 wells, and got oil sufficient to obtain patents. We drilled one well about a mile above Goodrich in a wash and took out 10,000 barrels. I topped the gasoline off of it and put in a little re-finery and sold the gasoline. We paid the government $ 500 royalty. The freighting in connection with the oil well was done by wagons and trucks. I have observed the San Juan River with reference to the heighth of the water at the various seasons of the year. In the |