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Show Record would be attracted to the river. 1756 In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master the witness stated that the river trip from the town of Green River, Utah, concerning which he testified, was a commercial undertaking made for the purpose of obtaining moving pictures for a commercial purpose, and such pictures were taken throughout the full length of the trip. Julius F. Stone testified for complainant on direct ex-emination as follows: 1760 I am engaged in the manufacturing and banking business, also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ohio State University. 1761 In my early life I had experience with canoes and row boats and afterwards handled sloops on Lake Erie and, to some extent, motor-boats. I became interested in the Colorado River when I read Major 1762 Powell's book and observed the pictures there shown. I obtained a distant view of the Colorado River in 1878 from the Blue Moun-tains in Colorado, but did not go down the canyon. In 1898 I went 1763 to Glen Canyon. I knew Mr. Stanton and invested some money in his 1764 placer mining venture on the Colorado. I spent probably six weeks 1765 or two months in Glen Canyon. While I was there Mr. Stanton em-ployed probably twenty men in Glen Canyon and there were some other prospectors further down the river. Mail and supplies came to the river in Glen Canyon overland. Mr. Stanton had some boats which were used for crossing the river and taking supplies and oc-casionally taking trips down the river with supplies to other camps 1767 which were established from place to place. Mr. Stanton had practically the whole of Glen Canyon surveyed and located for plac-er camps. Some of Mr. Stanton's employed brought a boat up from 1768 Lee's Ferry. In going upstream they would row and tow. As I recall it the stage of water was fairly uniform while I was there and we had no great flood. Sand and mud bars would shift to a greater or less extent with every change in the volume of current. I was 228 |