Part 4, Note 53

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Texas Monument, September 8, 1852, September 29, 1852, May 25, 1853, June 1, 1853, August 10, 1853, September 28, 1853, November 30, 1853, April 5, 1854. Two of the directors of the Colorado Navigation Company, John W. Gordon and John Duncan, were apparently so disenchanted with the efforts of the company that they contemplated hiring laborers on their own to remove the raft (see Texas Monument, December 15, 1852).