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Show Record 2256 Green River at Gunnison Crossing, now called green River, Utah, in 1891, with a band of horses, taking half of them over on the ferry boat and swimming the rest of them. We didn't take all of them across on the ferry boat because it was hung up on a sand bar near the middle of the river and we couldn't wait for it. 2257 Green River was a small town at that time. By next experience 2258 on the Green or Colorado Rivers was in the fall of 1897. My brother got a boat at Hite, which had been hauled there overland; and he took the boat down the river and met me at Last Chance Creek, where I had taken some horses. We spent three months in that vicinity, trying to operate some placer claims. During that time we saw Mr. Stanton take boats sown past our camp. I understand 2259 that he was doing assessment work. That was in 1897 and 1898. Mr. Stanton didn't have any particular equipment except shovels, picks and other tools. Another party of prospectors came to our camp in January, 1898, coming down the river in a small boat. I took them from there over to Escalante by saddle 2260 horse and pack animal. I also saw Nathan Galloway, who was coming up to river with a small boat. He was rowing and towing. In the 2261 spring I went up to Hall's Crossing from last Chance Creek. Last Chance Creek runs into the Colorado River not far above the Crossing of the Fathers. I took this trip up the river in a boat a distance of about sixty miles, making it upstream by rowing and towing. There were two or three small boats at Hall's Crossing. 2262 I stayed there one night and then went on to Hanksville overland. I was next on the Colorado River in June, 1898, reaching the river at Hite and riding from there down to Good Hope Bar on horseback, where I entered the employ of Good Hope Mining Company for about three months. That company had a sluice box arrangement about two hundred yards long and a forty foot water wheel which hoisted the water into a flume and carried it into a small reservoir 2263 for use in sluicing the gravel into the sluice box. During |