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earlier upon the discovery there. Some profitable locations were made but the gold was fine, like that in Glen Canyon, and many left pronouncing the new region a fake. Others worked both ways from the middle, prospecting down to the mouth of the San Juan and upstream as far as the mouth of Montezuma Creek, although very little gold was found above the mouths of Chinle Creek and Comb Wash. The gold boom on the San Juan lasted about 10 years. By 1902 the poorest placers had played out and only a few places like those at Zahn's Camp and Spencer Camp were being worked, and those intermittently. During this 10 year period there seem to have been several waves of excitement which coincide with the formation of a number of mining districts each covering roughly the same area--the San Juan Canyon below Comb Wash to the mouth and extending on the south side to the Utah-Arizona line and on the north to a parallel 10 miles north of the mouth of Comb Wash. These at least were the bounds of the Monumental Mining District organized in 1895, but the Island Mining District and the Gabel Mining District, both organized in 1892, were also located within this area. Still another, the Williams Mining District, was organized by J. P. Williams at the end of 1895 within the general confines of the Monumental district. Perhaps the year 1895 may be taken as a peak year in the gold boom in San Juan Canyon, although the record is by no means clear. Gold mining on the San Juan centered in the middle portion of the canyon between the mouth of Grand Gulch and the Big Bend, all of which region will be covered by the waters of the Glen Canyon reservoir. The principal mining areas along the river were the vicinities of Clay Hill Crossing, Piute Farms (Fig. 24), mouth of Clay Gulch, mouth of Copper Canyon (Figs. 23, 25, 26), mouth of Nakai Canyon and at the foot of Piute Mesa between Zahn's Camp and Spencer Camp (Figs. 27-29). Mining conditions were similar to those in Glen Canyon; the gold was found for the most part in the ancient gravel terraces above the river; it was extremely fine and difficult to save during the process of washing it from the gravel. No placer gold was found in the tributary canyons. During the first years of the century there was considerable activity in the upper part of the canyon at a few places like the bar at the foot of Honaker Trail, Mendenhall Loop, and Mexican Hat. The Monumental Mining District was in fact enlarged in 1908 to include lands on both sides of the San Juan some distance above Bluff. However, this reflects the beginning of an oil boom, centering about Mexican Hat and Goodridge, -23-Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,895,680 byte