Slowly, more prospectors drifted into the area and did placer mining at locations whose names still survive on Lake Powell today, such as Ticaboo Bar, Good Hope Bar, Klondike Bar, Oil Seep Bar, and Boston Bar. The gold was very fine and not easily captured, but it was there. Some of Cass HiteΓÇÖs relatives arrived to join him and the collection of cabins was soon called Hite City, and then just Hite. By 1889, it had a post office and there may have been as many as 1,000 miners at work in Glen Canyon.
Ferry operations were sporadic at best in the early years. It was indeed more of a ΓÇ£crossingΓÇ¥ than a ferry! One could swim horses across or try to find a boat. Not until 1946 did the State of Utah inaugurate regular ferry service to connect a rugged dirt road between Hanksville and Blanding. The ferry operated until 1964, when the rising waters of Lake Powell and the completion of the Hite and Dirty Devil bridges on Utah 95 made it obsolete. Cass Hite was long dead by then, having passed away at his ranch in Ticaboo Canyon in 1914.
