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Show 3525 1547 Dellenbaugh- D 36 A We went northeasterly up through the place now called Clarkson, and crossed the head of the Paris, went up along Hogback, as it was called, got up into what was then called Potato valley. One Mormon party had been up there two or three years before, and it was in Potato valley that Jacob Hamblin got lost. He followed down a river which he thought was the Dirty Devil, and which proved to be this Escalante river, which was unrecorded at that time; we found out it was un-recorded. It was a river we didn't know anything about, so we named in the Escalante river, because Escalante crossed a few miles below, below its mouth, at the Crossing of the Fathers. Then we went on cross that country and got to the mouth of the Dirty Devil, and brought the boat down. Q Can you give me the approximate date that you arrived at the mouth of the Dirty Devil A On that trip? Q Yes. A That must have been about some time in June, perhaps the middle of June. Q Of 1878. A Of 1878. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Did you go along then in the neighborhood of there the present town of Escalante is located? |
