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Show Record 1935 then returned to Colorado and later moved to Idaho. The dredge was finally sold and moved to Idaho. We had two one hundred horsepower boilers, a steam engine, an electric generator and the dredge was run by motors. We used coal for fuel. William Hiram Edwards testified on cross examination as follows: 1936 Our mill was located about eight miles below the bridge 1937 on the Green River. It was on a high bar up above the high water mark, and our operations did not extend into the river at all. Our machinery came from Denver and when it arrived at the town of Green River it was unloaded from the cars into a wagon and hauled down to the mill site in that same wagon. There was a fair road. The coal we used was shipped by railroad into Green 1938 River. I am pretty sure that we reached the San Juan River in the afternoon. I made no investigations, being just a hired man, 1939 cooking for the party and guiding. I think it was early in January any and don't remember whether there was snow on the ground and I do not remember whether there was any ice at that time, nor do I remember the condition of the San Juan River with respect to ice. If there was then ice and snow there I wouldn't know anything about the amount of water under it and I don't pretend to say now anything about them. I do remember that there was water, open water in the stream, and that is all. I remember that I saw 1940 some water and judged it to be about a foot deep. How far that extended out or under the ice, I do not know. When we left the San Juan and went back to the Colorado, we forded at Dandy Cross-ing, leading any horses behind us. I think one of the men rode a horse and led the rest. I can't remember whether we took anything across in boats or not and do not know whether I rode a horse or went in a boat. I know that I did not walk across and I don't 1941 remember riding any horses cross. I do not remember whether in crossing the horses had to swim part of the distance or not. I just remember seeing the horses out on the bar and that is about |