OCR Text |
Show Record horsepower we could, of course, have overcome that. Through the entire distance from Green River, Utah, to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado there were signs of ancient Indian habitations along the Green and Colorado Rivers. We found their houses; granaries where they had stored their food; we found corn, corn tassels, the tops of corn that had been wrapped up with a willow withe 1979 and stored, I suppose, for goat feed; we found animal bones and utensils that the cliff dwellers had used. We found these traces in the side canyons as well as along the Green and Colorado Rivers. There was no evidence of recent occupation by cliff dwellers. William Hiram Edwards testified on recross examination as follows: 1980 I have heard the Indian legend that the Navajos ran their enemies into the Colorado River, where they turned into fish and that the Indians were afraid to go upon the river because they believed that the enemies of their race had been turned into 1981 fish and would destroy or kill them if they went there. I do not know whether the Indians in that section believe in the legend to which I have referred. Elmer Kane testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1982 I am night watchman for the Los Angeles Times and am 66 years old. Before I went on my Stanton trip I had considerable experience on eastern rivers and on the Missouri River and the smaller Colorado rivers; also I had been in row boats on the big rivers of Alaska. Before my Stanton trip in 1889 I had been on the Grand River at different times prospecting, coming down the river when I could in my boat, although generally I had pack and saddle horses. However, I once made a trip from Grand 1984 Junction to Moab with two other men on a raft. On the Grand River above Grand Junction, Colorado, I used some flat bottom row boats. 258 |