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Show 645 He stayed at Lees Ferry two or three weeks waiting for Major Powell to arrive, but he was so slow in getting word to them that they decided to go out to Kanab to find out what the trouble was, so he borrowed a saddle from Lee and rode to Kanab and found out about Major Powell and then returned to Lees Ferry. Major Powell eventually came to Lees Ferry and brought supplies by wagon from Kanab over a wagon trail. The supplies ori-ginally came in overland to Kanab from Salt Lake City. The autumn of 1872 was spent in additional topo-graphic work and in about December they went to Kanab and put up some large tents and in these tents the map was draft-ed that he carried to Salt Lake City in February, 1673. R. 1553. In taking this map to Salt Lake City. Mr. Miller, the photographer, accompanied him. They went by saddle horse and had one pack male on which they carried their blankets. They went over into what is now called Long Valley. It was winter and snowing. They camped in Glendale and the next day continued on top of the divide. Neither of them had been over that particular road before and did-n't know where to go. They continued down into a valley and camped there and the next morning found a ranch owned by a man named Asa, continued on down the Sevier River to Panguitch and on down to Salt Lake city. The Sevier River is not in the Colorado River basin, it empties into Sevier Lake, which has no outlet. The character of the country through there is successive lines of cliffs, one above the other, culminating in the |