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. 077 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Identifier |
1929-1931-roll12_0281b.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 With reference to the use 77 of canoes and ( flat-bot- flatbot ) tomed boats for hunting purposes , the court ( ob- ob ) serves ( P . . 682 ) : That it is not commerce and proves nothing . The same test would convert every pond and swamp capable of floating a boat ( into iin'to iinto ) a ( navi- navi ) gable stream or lake . On the same page the court finds that ( naviga- naviga ) bility is contingent upon capability of use as a ( high- high ) way for purposes useful to trade or agriculture and concludes by saying : It is the capability of being navigated for useful purposes which is the test . The court held that the waters in that case were nonnavigable . The conclusion reached by the court clearly demonstrates that proof of commercial ( navi- navi ) gability , or navigability for useful purposes or ( capa- capa ) bility for use as a highway of commerce is not met by showing that hunters and others could operate small boats . Likewise in Harrison v . Fite , 148 Fed . 781 , there ( -was was ) proof of the use of the stream in question by duck hunters who shot for sport and for the market . . At page 783 , the court says : To meet the test of navigability as ( under- under ) stood in the American Law , a water course should be susceptible of use for purposes of commerce or possess a capacity for valuable floatage in the transportation to market of the products of the country through which it runs . . As has been pointed out , there was ( axnple aimple ) evidence in that case that the river in question was used by |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
109201 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ff3v0h/109201 |