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Show Record that time in a boat. There was a trail along the shore line most of the time. I had gone down to Tickaboo on foot, on horseback and in a boat many times. In taking supplies down to Tickaboo, we would take them occasionally on pack animals, if a boat was not handy, but most of the time in boats. We would use pack animals 3617 particularly in high water. 3618 In 1889 I went up the river above Hite to the mouth of Crescent Creek or North wash, three or four miles. I went down the river as far as Good Hope bar. In that section at that time there were probably 30 or 35 people living there. All those people were engaged in placer mining. I think from Good Hope bar down to Halls Crossing there must have been very nearly that many more people strung along at different places. As to which year was the 3619 big year down there, I don't know of any particular big year. They 1893 had the San Juan boom, and then the Henry Mountains in 1892 and There were a whole lot of people coming and going passing through there, and some stopped six months or a year. I expect there were more people there at that time than at any other one time, with the exception of when Mr. Stanton built his dredge. They built a large dredge and he worked a great many men, 50 or 75 men. At the time I was in and around Hite and Tickaboo and the Good Hope bar I never saw any supplies or merchandise being brought down the river from Greenriver, Utah. 3620 I was not there when the Stanton dredge was in operation. I was there while the dredge was being set up. I did no work on the dredge, but - did quite a bit of boating for Mr. Stanton. I was there at various times when the material for this dredge was brought in. The materials were brought in by freight trams from Greenriver, Utah, down Hanson Creek to the river. At Hanson Creek or near there they built the dredge. The dredge was built on a large boat. There was comparatively still water there and they let it down maybe 600 yards and anchored it to the shore where they did the work. I left then. The boating I did for Mr. Stanton was the trip I made to |