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Show Kendrick surveyed 134 ( Stanton's Stantons ) Railroad from Grand Junction , Colo . , to the Junction with the Green River in 1889 . The Colorado River , Ex . 81 294 , p . . Kane ( was -was was ) on the Grand in 1888 in a raft . Vol . 11 , p . 1983 , and McDonald . in 1888 , ( Yol Vol ) . 12 p . 2161 . The experience of these persons on the river ( sug- sug ) gest no possibilities of use of this section of the ( river Tiver ) as a ( highway high-way highway ) of commerce . The Powell expeditions ( 1869 , 1871 ) The expeditions of Major J . W . Powell of 1869 and 1871 descended the Green and Colorado ( Elvers Rivers ) from Green River ( "Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming ) . The first expedition ended at the mouth of the Virgin River ; the second at the mouth of the Kanab . The reports of these expeditions are complete . The personnel of the expeditions included geologists , engineers , ( and aiad ) ( to- to ) pographers . At no place in the diaries of the ( inein- inein ) bers of the expeditions or in the official reports is there any suggestion indicating navigable ( possibili possibili- possibili ) ties of the rivers in Utah . On the contrary , the progress of the expedition was so impeded by ( rapids -rapids rapids ) and sand bars , that the ( conclusion colichision ) is ( non- non ) navigability . ( Powell Po-well Powell ) Ex . 51 . Dellenbaugh . The Romance of the ( Col Cob ) . orado River . Ex . 13 . Dellenbaugh . A Canyon Voyage . Ex . 14 . Dellenbaugh , Oral Testimony , ( "Vol Vol Vol ) . 9 , p . 1514 . |
