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Show Record that time we were prospecting. Resuming his direct examination Mr. Mendenhall testified: 3485 I was next on the San Juan River in 1928. ( Counsel for complainant invited attention to page 3 of Exhibit 56, where Mr. Miser recites that Mr. Mendenhall was on the San Juan River in 1895.) I don't recall the trip referred to by Mr. Miser and know 3486 that I didn't make a second trip on the San Juan River. There was no occasion when I was asleep on the San Juan River and lost a boat, some supplies and mining equipment. In 1895 our big boat was loosened by the wind on the Colorado and we lost it on the 3487 trip I have already detailed. We lost that boat a little ways below the mouth of the San Juan, where we encountered a very hard head wind blowing upstream. The waves were high and choppy and we couldn't get along, so we landed at a point about two and a half miles above Aztec Canyon, which is sometimes know as Rainbow Bridge Canyon. That night we tied up our boats, which had been thumping together all of the time because of the wind. I awakened about ten o'clock and that sound had ceased, so I was worried and went to look at our boats and found that the big boat had come 3488 loose and floated away. We had all of our supplies and equipment in that boat, so we decided to wait until morning and then determine whether to go on to Lee's Ferry or go back and try to get some supplies at Escalante. Next morning we found a cache of 3489 seven fifty- pound sacks of flour, borrowed one sack, and started for Lee's Ferry. About a mile and a half downstream we came upon our big boat stranded on a sand bar over to the east side of the 3490 river. It took us some little time to get the boat loose; it had gone right through the rapid without taking in a bit of water, and our entire cargo was perfectly secure. We portaged some of our cargo at Aztec Rapid, lining the boats down with only a partial load. That is the roughest water between the San Juan River and Lee's Ferry. My next trip on the Colorado River was in August or September, |