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Show Record was employed by Mr. Stanton at what was known as Camp Stone, lo- 2630 cated nine or ten miles below the California Bar. I had charge of the transportation of freight that came down to the dredge. The company owned seventeen wagons and seventy- two head of horses, and had various feeding places along the road from Green River and shipped things over from Green River via Hanksville to the river. The company improved the road. Some of the Stanton supplies 2632- 2633 came from Richfield. I believe it was in 1899 instead of in 1898 that I worked building a scow for the Stanton company. 2634 We used this scow to carry heavy machinery from the landing place to the dredge. We built and launched this scow a little below Dandy Crossing, and as we went downstream gathered up driftwood. When we got about seven miles below Good Hope Bar we grounded and were detained there about half a day. We experienced the some trouble again at a point three or four miles farther down 2635 and we camped there that night. Next morning we got it off and went on down to the dredge. Before we put anything in the scow it drew about six inches, but loaded it drew fourteen or fifteen inches. The Stanton dredge shut down in the early summer of 2636 1901. They began operating the dredge in 1899. F. J. Weber testified on cross examination as follows: In 1891 we arrived at Dandy Crossing on November 4 and 2637 started down the river to Good Hope Bar next day. After I left in 1892 I did not return to the river until 1894, and thereafter worked on the river from time to time for different parties until 2638 I entered Mr. Stanton's employ, when I worked on the California Bar. The scow would carry as high as three thousand pounds of coal at a time over to the island. This coal was used to fire the boilers and came from the coal mean located about 2639 midway between the Henry Mountains and the Colorado River. The coal would be taken to Hanson Creek and there would be loaded in the scow and taken around the island to the place where we were 347 |