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Show Record boat travel on the river that I saw back and forward from the bar. Hite was about four miles down the river from us and 2212 I occasionally walked down there. Four or five years after the dredge was in operation I went into the canyon from Escalante and then back out; then I went in again about half way between the location of the dredge and the San Juan River, staying in there nearly three months that time " sniping". We call it sniping when we use a crevicing iron to got the sand out of cracks where the high water had deposited it and into which 2213 cracks the gold sinks. Maybe in a year's time I would get ten dollars worth of gold out in this manner, bust it might be two or three years before I could it again. During the time to which I have last referred I saw an old fellow named Meskin several times. He had a flat boat with light draft and was prospecting and mining; I understood that he stayed in there for 2214 years. I have seen him take his boat upstream, pulling it along. He told me that he would go up the river and did not care how long the was gone; he would be months and months away from Lee's 2214- 2215 Ferry and up as far as Hite. Picture No. 315 in Exhibit 11D is a picture of the placer ground, but I don't recognize the structure shown there. Harry McDonald testified on cross examination as follows: 2215 I myself built the boat at North Wash that I took up the 2216 river and rode through rapids as testified to by me. We had lumber brought in there for the purpose of building a boat, which we wanted for crossing the river. The lower rapid was perhaps four miles above our camp and I ran that rapid with my boat 2217 just for fun. In taking the boat up there we towed it most all the way, but there was a little stretch between the mouthy of the Dirty Devil and camp where we pulled it along. When we took our boat up there I shot two or three other small rapids that were 2218 close by. I left the second Stanton expedition at a point below |
