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Show 847 the afternoon or evening of the twenty- third, and they stayed over Christmas. He doesn't recall the exact point where Mr. Stanton picked up the survey line, but he believes it was two or three days before the reached Lee's Ferry. He assisted in the survey himself. At that time there was just a ranch house at Lee's Ferry, and a man and his wives living there. It was also the headquarter of a man named Al Huntington, R. 1997. Any close survey was abandoned at Lee's Ferry, also Mr. Stanton took, he believes, some seventeen hundred pictures in the Grand Canyon. He called it surveying with photographs, but they measured quite a number of the side canyons, and did run a line along the bluff when they could get up. R. 1998. " We would take the instrument and the level and the stadia rod, and take sights along wherever we could; sometimes they were nine hundred or a thousand feet apart, other places two or three hundred, wherever we could get up and make points." R. 1998- 1999. " Q. How far did you continue with this expedition? " A. Though to the Gulf of California, to tide water, to the Gulf of California." R. 1999. Mr. Mims, [ the photographer], fell off a bluff and broke a leg, and fractured his skull, and was taken to Lee's Ferry. R 1999. " Q. Did the rest of the party go through to the Gulf of California? " A. Not all; we had lost a boat in the Grand Canyon; when we got to Pete Spring, which was the first stopping point |