Title |
No. 15 Original, Brief of Defendant, the State of Utah, 1929 |
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 |
1929-10 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
Original format: 12 microfilm reels |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
No. 15 Original, Brief of Defendant, the State of Utah, 1929 |
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/s69p339m |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
110907 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69p339m |
Title |
Brief of Defendant, 1929, p. 083 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Identifier |
1929-1931-roll12_0396b.jpg |
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 also ran it many years . It 83 was about 40 by 18 feet . We also had row boats that ( we Nve ) used . ( R . 3015-16 , Vol . 16 . ) I made a trip with three ( 14-foot 14foot ) boats and one ( 18-foot 18foot ) boat , which had a motor in it that ( didn't didnt ) work , from Lees Ferry to Bull Frog Creek , located about a mile above ( Hall's Halls ) crossing . There were fifteen in our party and our ( 135-mile 135mile ) trip upstream consumed ( twenty-one twentyone ) days . Between riffles we were able to row the boats at stort intervals . At the riffles there were sand bars and rocks . After we ( de- de ) livered these boats ( we -we we ) obtained two old home made row boats and came back down the river . The larger of these row boats was 18 feet long and the smaller one probably 14 feet long . We made the downstream trip in two days . ( R . 3017-18 , Vol . 16 . ) I remember the boat called the Charles H . Spencer which they used for pushing barges from Lees Ferry up to Warm Creek to haul coal . I never made the trip to Warm Creek on that boat but I helped get them started and would help them unload and in other ways after they arrived , at Lees Ferry . The Charles H . Spencer made two round trips from Warm Creek to Lees Ferry and another downstream trip to Lees Ferry . The ( barge barcre ) that they built to use with the Charles H . Spencer got away from them and went down the river so they used our ferry boat in its place . On one trip they had five tons of coal down in the hull which was never unloaded . The coal they hauled on the barges they used for their boilers and some of it for blacksmith purposes . I ( suppose -suppose suppose ) they brought seven or eight tons down on the ferry boat . The same people had some other boats one of which was 40 feet long and 6 feet wide and called the Violet Louise . It was equipped with a 40 horse power gasoline motor and had a propeller . I never took any long trips on that boat but have ridden around Lees Ferry in it . It went up to Warm Creek on one occasion and during the flood got loose and I caught it and brought it to land at Lees Ferry . That was about the year 1912 and the boat ( hasn't hasnt ) been used since . The company operating these boats was called Nome Gold Dredging Company . ( R . 3019-24 , Vol . 16 . ) The same company had a Mullins boat made of metal and 23 feet long by 4 feet wide , equipped with a 35 or 40 horse power engine . I ( saw sav ) them go upstream with it but ( didn't didnt ) accompany them . They ran the motor at such a high speed that they burned out the bearings and rowed it coming back downstream . They put in new bearings and made ( an- an ) |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
108921 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69p339m/108921 |