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Show this point to the mouth 120 of the Virgin ( Eiver River ) there were 660 ( miles ndles ) of ( continuous contimious ) river and the river route was again discarded . From the crossing of the Green River , the trail proceeded overland to a point near themouth of ( tlie the ) Virgin River through a country ( which whicli ) was ( rough roiigb ) , broken , and barren and offered obstacles to ( over over- over ) ¬ land travel ( imequaled unequaled ) in any section of the United States . ( See Exhibit 221 , Vol . 9 , pp . 1567-8 . ) ( Subsequent SubsequeA ) to ( Escalante's Escalantes ) ( explorations exploratims ) , ( Wolfs- Wolfs ) kill , Jedadiah Smith , and others used the overland route from Santa Fe , New ( Mexico Alexico ) , to ( Monterey Moiiterey ) and the other Spanish ( towns towlis ) in California ( , . ) History does not disclose that any person ever attempted to operate boats upon any of the three rivers for tlie purpose of traveling or transporting goods from Santa Fe , ( New Now ) Mexico , to California . The Old ( Spanish Spauish ) Trail appears upon all of the old maps . ( See Exhibit ( 54 51 ) ( : ; ) ( Dellenbaugli Dellenbaugh ) , ( Exhibit E-xzhibit Exzhibit ) 14 95 Vol 9 1561 ) , page ; . , p . . Hispanic ( American A-merican American ) Historical Review , Vol . IV , No . 3 August 1921 . , , The fur traders in Utah The fur trade was the ( "big big ) ( business57 business" business ) of the West . The fur trader played an important part in the exploration and the civilization of the western country . The ( fur-trading furtrading ur-trading urtrading ) business necessarily carried ( tlie flie' flie ) trader into the wildest parts of the United States . The success of the fur trade depended largely upon |