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Show Record 3076 there was a hole in the ground and we saw a vein of coal two or three feet thick. I went down to the south of Warm Creek, but didn't see any coal there on the bank. Frank T. Johnson testified on cross examination us follows; 3077 While with this survey party most of our supplies came overland from Lee's Ferry by pack train, although one trip was made down the river with a boat and we received supplies from the boat. The survey we were making was back from the rim of the canyon, 3078 at places about fifteen miles back from the rim. Arrangements had been made for a boat to meet us after we had finished our survey. The boat did meet us and we came back in the boat. There was no other way of transportation except walking. We had a pack outfit, but the man with that outfit was fired on the last day or two. I do not know how long before our return trip the arrangements had been made for a boat to meet us. We returned by the river because it was the best and easiest method of travel. 3079 As to whether or not we would have returned by the river regardless of the trouble with the man in charge of the pack outfit, I don't know what arrangement might have been made, but it is my judgment that to come back by the river would have been the best 3083 and practiced method. To my mind the easiest way to have gone back 3085 would have been one horseback. The machinery that I spoke of having seen on the Charles H. Spencer steamboat was some mining machinery, which was more heavy than bulky; there was one small steam engine. 3086 and I couldn't say how much other machinery. The Violet Louise and Mullins' boat took our ferry boat up the river. whether it was 3087 shoved tied to the side of these boats, I don't remember. On the upstream trip they loaded some wagons on to our ferry boat and it had a pretty fair load. The ferry boat came back down alone without being tied to either of the other boats, and the men in charge 3088 of the ferry boat had poles and were poling it. I don't recall 3089 how much coal there was on the ferry boat when it came down. Just above the place where we operated our ferry a wash comes in and |
