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Show Record 3516 other men and other boats on the river besides ours. The other placer miners generally got their supplies down to their camp overland because it was easier and I don't know of any outfit that went through the canyon except ours. I was not on the San Juan River in 1892. Some of the other miners may have brought their supplies down the river from Bluff; I don't know about that. There were some other parties down below us on the river, most of whom went down overland, reaching the river through side canyons. They had one notable trail know as Honaker trail, which was 3517 eight or ten miles below our camp. There they had a twenty or thirty foot ladder with which they got down into the canyon. The other men beside our party whom I personally saw were either going down the river or else they were on one or another of the trails. Their camps were accessible from trails leading up to the road. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Mendenhall testified as follows: When I was on the San Juan River in 1893 and 1894, there were a good many other miners prospecting or working their claims up and down that river. There must have been a hundred or one hundred and fifty in that year because the discoveries we had made in the fall of 1893 created quite an excitement. Resuming his cross examination Mr. Mendenhall testified as follows: I don't know where the other miners who had their boats 3518 came from in those boats or how they got them down there. I think some of them came down the river; probably some brought the lumber down and built them. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master Mr. Mendenhall testified: I saw men coming down the river in boats. I can't say whether they came from above Lime Creek, but they came down the river and passed our camp to their different places that they were |