Title |
No. 14 Original, Brief for the United States, 1930 |
Subject |
Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Utah; United States -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Utah -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Environmental aspects |
Description |
Testimony given before special master Charles Warren in a suit brought by the United States against the state of Utah over ownership of the bed of the Colorado River. Much of the testimony was given by river runners, scientists and engineers, petroleum geologists, and placer miners. The testimony constitutes an extensive oral history of the men and women who utilized the Colorado River Basin in Utah prior to 1929. |
Publisher |
Microfilm gift of John Weisheit, 1997 |
Date |
1930-10 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Original format: 12 microfilm reels |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
No. 14 Original. Brief for the United States of America, 1930 |
Spatial Coverage |
Colorado; Utah; Mexico |
Rights Management |
Digital image copyright 2003, University of Utah. All rights reserved. |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; Originals in: Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Scanning Device |
Sunrise 2000 Microfilm Scanner |
Scanning Contractor |
iArchives Inc., Orem, UT |
Call Number |
ACCN 1702 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6ff3v0h |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
110906 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ff3v0h |
Title |
Brief for the U.S., 1930, p. 194 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Identifier |
1929-1931-roll12_0340a.jpg |
Relation |
No. 14 Original, Brief for the United States of America, 1930 |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Originals in: Utah State Archives; Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Resolution |
Archival TIFF: 3000 x 4600 |
Dimensions |
JPEG: 650 x 1000 |
Bit Depth |
8-bit |
OCR Text |
Show cotton . . They were nearly 184 all ( flat-bottom flatbottom flat-bottonli flatbottonli ) . boats . . There were a number of other boats on the river during that time . They generally ran ( from froin ) January up until April . About half a bank stage was required to run a boat . When the boats were not in use ( they thqy ) were tied up either ( at' at ) Fulton or New Orleans . . Thq boats would go through to New Orleans one or twice in a season . Keel boats were used in navigation before the invention of steamboats . They drew about 3 feet of water . The Ham ( Howell Hoivell ) and the R . T . Briley , , the Bonnie Lee , and the Royal George ran after the Civil War . He remembered Ben ( Ktmtz Kuntz ) and John Kuntz . The boats were called the Kuntz lines . . The Era and the ( New iYew ) Era both ran before the Civil War . The Kuntz line and the Morgan line ran up and down upper Red River ; they had a number of boats running on upper Red River along in this section of the country . He remembered a boat called the Red River Planter ; it ran on the , , river in this section of the country . Captain Cheatham ran the Frontier ; he had a salt works up in the Kiamichi River and ran ( an- an ) other boat called the Southern . He remembered a boat called the ( Francis r1rancis ) Jones , and the R . AT . . Jones and the Walla Busha . The Jones boat was built to haul cotton off of the old ( Shawneetown Sha-vvneetown Shavvneetown ) farm . . He remembered a boat called the Jim Turner . . ( Peo- Peo ) ple living along Red River in those days marketed their crops from October until along in the spring . . During the summer months there was nothing up |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
110266 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ff3v0h/110266 |