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Show Record 2812 trail; I think we had two camps below Honaker trail. Our supplies came overland and I never attempted to operate a boat on the river and we had no boats. I went into the San Juan country in 1908 and left in April 1909 and was at Honaker trail probably during January 1909. No placer mining was going on at that time 2813 and I never saw a boat on the San Juan River. In 1914 I worked on the Green River about twenty- five miles above the town of Green River. This was government work conducted on the right- had side of the stream going down. From my camp it required three days to get across the river because I had to travel by horseback to McPherson's ranch and there cross 2814 the river with a boat; that was probably in July, McPherson's ranch is about forty miles below the town of Green River and there were forty or fifty acres of land under cultivation at that ranch. The country for the first ten miles up from Green River is a sort of sandy, rolling country on both sides of the river. I was only up from Green River once and we got our supplies from Woodside, Utah, by pack animals. The country after leaving Green River becomes very rugged and broken by ledges and steep slopes that are 2815 very difficult to get over. I didn't see any land in there that could be farmed. In 1916 I was at Split Mountain Canyon on gover-nment work and we used a row boat for crossing the river, which is about four hundred feet wide there. I was also at Jensen, Utah, 2816 which has a population of probably five hundred people, and main-tained a camp there in 1916 at Daniel's ranch. While there we got our supplies from Jensen, Utah. Through Split Mountain Canyon, which is about four miles long, the country is very rugged and broken, with a sparse growth of vegetation and a fair growth of timber, high juniper and pinon, through the canyon. Leaving the canyon the country opens into an agricultural district; to the east there are mountains covered with juniper and pinon timber, generally scrub timber, used for fence posts and similar purposes 372 |