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gravel and sand on the high terraces was ploughed, scraped and shoveled into chutes or otherwise conveyed down to the level of the water supply and then run through sluice boxes. In some locations adits were run to reach richer gravel at lower levels without removing top layers. The average placer mine in Glen Canyon operated mostly by manpower, assisted here and there by a horse or two. The largest enterprise in Glen Canyon during the gold rush was the operation undertaken by the Hoskaninni Company, formed probably in 1897, and in which Robert Brewster Stanton had a large interest. During the course of the railroad surveys, undertaken a few years before, Stanton had learned of the mining possibilities of Glen Canyon and, as noted above, staked some claims in the canyon which were apparently never worked. He now returned to the canyon once again in charge of the Hoskaninni Company's operation. The plan was to install a gold dredge designed to handle large quantities of sand and gravel in a short time and thus return a profit in areas where the individual miner operating with primitive equipment could scarcely subsist. In 1898 Stanton employed a crew of 10 or so men to get the operation under way. While some proceeded to stake out the unclaimed portion of Glen Canyon, others tested values on the bars, terraces and river bed with a heavy drilling machine. The entire canyon was staked by the company; where valid claims stood in the way Stanton staked around them so that he had a continuous claim stretching from one end of the canyon to the other. If the first operation were a success he could literally dredge out the canyon without interference. He determined to begin operations in the quiet, straight stretch of river above Bullfrog Creek (site 55). The assembling and building of the Stanton dredge (site 45) (Fig. 36), as it is called, was a colossal undertaking. When finally constructed the dredge weighed over 180 tons; it was equipped with 82 buckets, five large gasoline engines, 82 tables for saving gold, an amalgamator, and other equipment. All of the machinery was hauled in from the railhead at Green River by 16 and 20 horse teams traveling across the desert to Hanksville. A road from there was constructed through the Henry Mountains (between Mt. Hillers and Mt. Pennell) and on to the Colorado River at Stanton Canyon (site 44) (Fig. 37). From the mouth of Stanton Canyon the materials for the dredge were hauled by a barge upstream about two miles to Camp Stone (site 46) (Fig. 38) where they were assembled by some 15 carpenters. Coal for the blacksmith forges -32-Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,991,936 byte