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Show Record had heard about the placer mines on the river and had come out to inspect them. I do not know they got there. I did not see any power boats or any boats hauling freight or passenger. 1417 About two- thirds down the river we would stop occasionally, when we would see a sand bar, and pan the dirt. Four of us staked out a claim of 80 acres, which was just above the water at that time. In high water it would be covered. At that time there was a post- office at Lees Ferry. Between the point where I staked off that placer mine and Lees Feery we had difficulty grating the sand and with the high wind making high waves. Between Crescent Greek and Lees Ferry we encountered rapids or riffles, but nothing to do any damage. We ran all of them. I never attempted to take a boat up a stream. 1419 The boat I went down the river in I could not have taken up stream. Franklin A. Nims testified on cross examination as follows: 1420 I was probably as much a boatman as any of them. I suppose it would be rather hard work taking a row boat up stream. I would not want to do it and that is the way I felt about that stream there. 1424 Complainant's Exhibit 174, being transcription of stenographic notes of Franklin A. Nims, subject to certain correction, was received in evidence. 1425 Complainant's Exhibit 177, being book written by Franklin A. Nims, was received in evidence. 1428 All of the pictures that I have brought here are not my pictures. I did not have all of the pictures taken on the trip. The few that I did get I found in Denver and got them from the estate of T. c. Henry, one of the directors of the company. All of - 186- |