AZ vs. CA:03 California Exhibits, Vol III; Nos. 114-150

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-45- "Probably the greater part of the item in the 4th line of the table was for Hardyville. The 5th line contains a large item which I believe consists mainly, if not wholly, of firewood, towed up from Cottonwood Island, 26 miles, for the supply of the quartz mill at El Dorado Canon. I have not been able to get statistics of the passenger traffic in a very intelligible form, but the following numbers will give some idea of its amount: Passengers Carried. From Yuma, 1,621 From Drift Desert, 9 Ehrenberg, 687 Swan Lagoon, 6 Aubrey, 230 Quien Sabe, 1 Castle Dome, 71 Indian Agency, 21 Chimney Peak, 64 Empire Flat, 8 Picache Mill, 3 Chin-e-hue-vis, 3 Roads Ranch, 4 Camp Mojave, 100 Camp California 6 Hardyville, 35 Gaston's, 2 Cottonwood Island, 2 Taylor's, 2 El Dorado, 11 Total Passengers,............ 2,286 "It remains to show what facilities for commerce the river affords in its present unimproved conditions. The head of high water navigation was put by Lieutenant Ives in the lower part of the Black Canon, and a steamer has actually ascended to the noew abandoned town of Colville, 25 miles above the mill at El Dorado, but the difficulties and dangers of this upper portion of the river, combined with the lack of any present reason for going there, have made the latter place the practical upper limit of the navigable portion of the stream.