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Show Record 2157 at Fort Mojave. I stayed around Fort Mojave for a while and 2160 then started back with an old trapper named Smith and went to 2161- 2162 Helena, Montana, via Salt Lake City. In March, about the year 1887, my partner and I built a boat at Grand Junction, Colorado, and hauled it down to the Colorado River, which was then running ice, and went down through the first granite canyon to Bar X Bottom, where we built a cabin, put in a sluice box and a little dam, and commenced mining at a point within a mile of the Colorado- Utah line. We stayed there seven or eight months. Then we went up into the Book and Roan range and from there went on 2163 burros to Glen Canyon. On our way we came to the Green River about half way between the present location of the town of Green River, Utah, and the mouth of San Rafael, fording the Green River at that point, and went thence via Hanksville, to the mouth of 2164 the Dirty devil. This was about a year after the trip I mentioned having taken in a boat from Grand Junction. We entered 2165 the Colorado River at North Wash. At that time Hanksville consisted of a few settlers and scattered buildings and was the largest town in that part of the country. After arriving at North Wash, I went to prospecting and mining, and my partner, Jess Fuller, concluded he would go back and took some of the burros 2166 with him, leaving me the horses. I remained there with five other men and we mined and prospected for gold. There was flour gold in the bars, but you could not collect it like you could 2167 shot gold. It was very fine and looked like flour. While in Glen Canyon I built a flat skiff with which to cross the river and run up and down. The lumber in the boat came from Hanksville overland. Claude Sanford and I went up Red Canyon and I spent 2168 eight or nine months there. We used the boat to cross the river and reach bars and also to reach bars in the center of the river. We used some of the boats we brought down and made a sluice box at a sand bar just above North Canyon. We dug through the bar, put in the sluice box, and ran the water through, thus washing |