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Show Record supplies from the Bluff Co- or or from Mr. Adams and took two boat-loads of supplies down the San Juan River to a point in the neigh-borhood of Johns Canyon, which I would say was approximately sixty miles below Chinle Creek. We made this trip in July or August, when the river was at low water stage. The trip when I saw the 2412 three men at the mouth o Slick Horn Canyon during the period between August, 1894, and the first of May, 1895. They were placer miners whom I had known in Colorado. George Edmondson and I made the trip I spoke of in 1894 down to Indian Farms, to Copper Canyon. I do not believe those three placer miners had a boat. However, 2413 when Edmondson and I went down through the canyon we might have had their boat or it may have been our boat; in 1894 three of us went down to Copper Canyon in a boat. One of the men was located at Slick Horn making that trip, which was my first trip down to Copper Canyon up to that time. When we made that trip we started from my camp at Honaker Trail and the other men were then down five or 2414 six miles below that point. On that trip I traversed the San Juan River from Bluff to the foot of Honaker Trail. The other men had some supplies. On the trip from Slick Horn Canyon to Copper Canyon, we took as few supplies as we could and made the thirty mile 2415 trip down to Copper Canyon and then back up the river. We did this traveling back and forth in a boat, pulling the boat upstream. 2416 After I left the San Juan in May, 1895, I was not again on the river until I made my 1921 trip with the Trimble party. We put our boats in the river when I went with the Trimble party at a point about three or four miles below Bluff, and I went thence to the 2417 mouth of the San Juan in our boats. On the occasion when Mr. Miser and I made the seventeen mile trip upstream with our boat for sup-plies, we loaded the boat with the supplies and brought it back downstream. We took oars along with us and used them a little on the down trip but towed the boat on the up trip. We had perhaps 2418 four hundred and fifty pounds of supplies coming back. One of the 320 |