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Show 644 The only other settlement in that country that he visited personally use a little place about fourteen miles went of Kanab called Johnson, where a man named Johnson had a sort of a ranch, and about thirty- five miles westerly there was another place called Paria Settlement. About twenty miles east of Kanab there was a place called Pipe Springs which has since been made into a National Monument. There was no town at all at Pipe Springs, simply a fortified place built by a man named Windsor. It consisted of a double house made of strong sandstone two stories high with a court between protected by large heavy doors, and the outside of the house had nothing but loop holes. A spring was conducted in from a nearby bank underground and through the house. On his second expedition down through Glen Canyon from the mouth of the Dirty Devil to Lees Ferry, the river was very high, and the only difficulty was in stopping. They went along beautifully on this smooth, swift current, but when they wanted to stop, it was almost impossible. There was nothing to get hold of except occasionally a bank with some bushes on it, and they almost pulled the boat under water in trying to stop. R. 1550- 51. When they reached Lees Ferry on this trip, they found that Lee [ John D. Lee] had come in in the meantime, built a cabin, made a farm and was irrigating a garden. The improvements consisted of one house where Lee and wife No. 18 and their family lived. He saw no boats or any other people in there at the time. |
