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. 043 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Identifier |
1929-1931-roll12_0264b.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 43 We also think that these instructions are open to the further criticism that they ( con- con ) tain no reference to the nature or extent of the traffic or trade carried on in Red Pass before the erection of the dam . Indeed , the charge necessarily implies that the defendant was guilty if there was merely a capacity for passing from Red Pass into the Mississippi River on any sort of a boat . Very different was the view expressed by Chief Justice Shaw when he said it is not " every small ( creek cree1c ) in which a fishing skiff or gunning canoe can be made to float at high water , which is deemed navigable , but in order to give it the character of a navigable stream , it must be ( generall generally ) and commonly useful to some purpose of trade or agriculture . " ( 21 Pick . 344 . ) Donnelly v . The United States , 228 ( II U ) . S . 708 , ( in- in ) volved the validity of the conviction of a white man for the murder of an Indian on the Klamath River . It was asserted that the crime was committed on a navigable stream and that the State Court and not the Federal Court had jurisdiction . The extent of the navigability of the Klamath River is set forth on page 709 , in the following language : As the opinion points out , there was ( evi- evi ) dence tending to ( show'that showthat ) the stream is navigable in fact at certain seasons from Requa near its mouth ) up to and above the locus in quo . But the evidence was by no means conclusive . It showed an apparently |
Setname |
usa_crc |
ID |
110541 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ff3v0h/110541 |