Title |
No. 15 Original, Brief of Defendant, the State of Utah, 1929 |
Subject |
Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Utah; United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental aspects |
Description |
Testimony given before special master Charles Warren in a suit brought by the United States against the state of Utah over ownership of the bed of the Colorado River. Much of the testimony was given by river runners, scientists and engineers, petroleum geologists, and placer miners. The testimony constitutes an extensive oral history of the men and women who utilized the Colorado River Basin in Utah prior to 1929. |
Publisher |
Microfilm gift of John Weisheit, 1997 |
Date |
1929-10 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Original format: 12 microfilm reels |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
No. 15 Original, Brief of Defendant, the State of Utah, 1929 |
Spatial Coverage |
Colorado; Utah; Mexico |
Rights Management |
Digital image copyright 2003, University of Utah. All rights reserved. |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; Originals in: Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Scanning Device |
Sunrise 2000 Microfilm Scanner |
Scanning Contractor |
iArchives Inc., Orem, UT |
Call Number |
ACCN 1702 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s69p339m |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
110907 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69p339m |
Title |
Brief of Defendant, 1929, p. 084 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Identifier |
1929-1931-roll12_0397a.jpg |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Originals in: Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Resolution |
Archival TIFF: 3000 x 4600 |
Dimensions |
JPEG: 650 x 1000 |
Bit Depth |
8-bit |
OCR Text |
Show other trip or two upstream 84 to Warm Creek . Later it was taken to Lake Mary at Flagstaff and used for a pleasure boat . The same company had another metal boat and wooden boat equipped with small engines of not more than 10 horse power . These boats got away and went down the river . On one trip I went four or five miles up the river on the Charles H . Spencer and for three days it was on the sand at a point a mile or a mile and a half above Lees Ferry . ( R . 3025-6' Vol . 16 . ) On my trip upstream with the ( Stan- Stan ) ton boats in 1898 ( I 1 ) found that the water below Warm Creek was better than above ; not so many rapids or such swift water . The Nome Company had two barges anchored ( to- to ) gether about a quarter of a mile below Lees Ferry and ( in- in ) stalled dredge machinery on them . They were dredging sand from the bed of the river . ( R . 3027 , Vol . 16 . ) Once I saw the river rise a foot an hour in ( twenty-four twentyfour ) hours at Lees Ferry as a result of heavy rains . There was one year when the rise was greater than ever known either before or since ; that was in 1884 , and I can just remember . I marked the place to which the river came by a fork in a tree in our orchard . I suppose that mark might be 20 or 25 feet from low water mark . ( R . 3029-31 , Vol . 16 . ) Aside from the one trip I took upstream with the Stanton boats , I have only made one trip up the Colorado River above Warm Creek , and on that trip went only five or six miles above Warm Creek in a row boat . All of the fifteen men who went with me on my upstream trip with the Stanton ( boats boat9 ) came back down the river with me , making the 135 miles in two days . Going upstream with the Stanton boats we poled and rowed some , towing when we came to a good place where we could walk along the bank and in other places rowing . Coming ( down- down ) stream after delivering the Stanton boats there were seven men in one boat and eight men in the other . ( R . 3035-8 , Vol . 16 . ) The Johnson outboard motors are equipped in such a manner that the silt in the river ( doesn't doesnt ) get in and cut the bearings as it did with the boats concerning which 1 have been testifying . The Johnson motors are equipped with a small pin in the propeller so that if you hit anything instead of twisting the shaft out the pin is cut out and you raise the motor up and shove in another pin and go on . ( R . 3039-41 , Vol . 16 . ) ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit 12 is in my handwriting and signed by me . I made the following statement in that letter : |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
109956 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69p339m/109956 |