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Show Record Canyon. 1381 Franklin A. Nims testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1382 I am 75 years old. 1383 Starting from Greenriver, Utah, on May 25, 1889, I made a trip down the Green River, with Robert B. Stanton as engineer of the party and fourteen others, making 16 in all, in Cedar skiffs, clinker- built, 15 feet long, 3 feet beam and 24 inches in depth, with keel bottom. I kept stenographic notes of my trip. Complainant's Exhibits 146 to 172, being photographs taken by Franklin A. Nims, and Exhibit 173, being statement explaining the photographs, were received in evidence. 1384 Exhibits 146 to 172 are photographs which I took on that trip at that time. 1391 Mr. Stanton some years ago sent me a reproduction of his survey of that railroad through the Colorado River. 1392 Complainant's Exhibit 175, being map of survey of Pacific Railroad survey of 1889, with certain historical data attached, was received in evidence. 1395 I made a second trip on the Colorado River in November, 1889. We did continued our survey in July of that year at Vasey's Paradise in Marble Canyon because there were only five of us left and we were not in condition, either physically or with supplies to continue it further at that time. On my first expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers I did not meet any other boats. I saw settlers below Greenriver at what we called the Home ranch, and another ranch a little farther down 397 at about the mouth of the San Rafael. Between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael we encountered both rapids and gravel bars. My boat in the rapids stuck on a rock and knocked two holes in it. That riffle was about two miles below Greenriver, where we started and is shown in Exhibit 147. We waded to shore with the boat. Exhibit 148 shows us before |