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Show Record 3267 overland to the mouth of Hanson Creek at the that time. There I got off my wagon and had a man named Ab Dalton drive the load of lumber across the river. The water ran up on the horses pretty well, but from where I was I couldn't see the water strike the lumber. The horses didn't have to swim. This occurred in September or the latter part of August. We also hauled a sixty horsepower boiler 3268 down there, which had been taken across to the California Bar. I had two teams with my outfit and they had four teams on the wagon that hauled the boiler. I didn't cross the river myself. I arrived there one day and left the next. I was again at the Colorado River in 1892 with a man named Ed Meskin, who was engaged in trapping I went in there to prospect and also intended to do some 3269 trapping but didn't do any. On that trip I came to the river at the south of Hanson Creek with my team and wagon and supplies. We had lumber and there built us a boat about sixteen feet long and three feet wide, put part of our supplies in the boat, and went up 3270 the river. That was in September and we went from Hanson Creek up to Hite, also called Dandy Crossing. We poled and rowed our boat on that upstream trip. We would get out on the bank and trail the boat along; at other places we would row it, and when we came to a bad place we would take hold of the end and pull the boat up, wading the stream. On our way up we did a lot of prospecting and were away from Hanson Creek shout three weeks on that up and down trip. I remained there until the spring of 1893, except that I went cut and got some more supplies with my team that I had at 3271 Hanson Creek. After I came back with these supplies, I went down the river to Hole- in- the- Rock below the mouth of Escalante River and there did a little mining on a bar they called little Anna. On that trip down the river we never had anything that gave us any great trouble. There were places where we would get on mad bars, but we had a light boat and encountered very little trouble. Mr. Meskin knew the river pretty well. We made this trip in the winter 3272 months. We stopped wherever we wished to, and when we felt like |
