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Show Record 1929 at the San Juan we saw no placer miners there; the boom was over and they had all gone. I saw no remains of their work and no signs of any mining. I did not stake out any claims or 1930 try to wash any gold and saw no boats on the San Juan River. When we towed the boat back up the Colorado River in January, 1893, we left the boat and crossed to the bank of the Colorado at Good Hope Bar. I do not remember how we got our stock across the river. I do not remember whether there was a ford down there; I think there was. I think we used that boat to carry our stuff across and led the animals. An engineer of the Rio Grande Western railroad by the name of Green was practically in charge of our party; then there was Cy Warman, and I think there were two 1931 others, but I don't remember their names. The Hanksville trail was quite a well- traveled trail and was the main trail from Green 1932 River to Dandy Crossing. We only stayed on the San Juan River over night and did not cross it. As I remember there was very little water in it; it was in the winter time. I suppose it was not probably more than two or three feet wide, possibly a foot deep, something like that; very small stream. After my return to Green River, Utah, from that trip I have had no more acquaintance or experience with these rivers, except that I have been down to 1933 the lower river since. I went back to the Green River again in 1895 to a point about eight miles below the bridge, for the purpose of putting in an amalgamator. Some bars had been located there and there was a dry land dredge, steam shovel, run electrically, and designed to handle about a yard of gravel a minute. I took the machinery down there by wagon and forded the river in September or October, remaining in that country a year, operating that dredge. 1934 I think Mr. Galloway and his partner and Flavell and Richards came along the Green River during that time with their boats. Galloway and his partner were going through the canyon, as were the other two men mentioned. We employed about twenty men on the dredge and freighted our supplies overland from Green River. I |