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Show 3978 Kane- D 1998 half a mile from Johnson's home. Mr. Johnson ran the place. Q How far was this survey line carried down? A Down to Lees Ferry. Q And then did you abandon the survey at that point? A Any close survey; we did a lot of surveying in the Grand Canyon, along with pictures; where we couldn't climb up the walls to get certain points, we took pictures; Mr. Stanton took pictures along there. He took, altogether, I believe, seventeen hundred pictures in the Grand Canyon; they were all numbered, so he could put them down -- when he went back to his company, in making his report he could put them all down and they could see what an engineer could tell about what the proposed line -- where it would be and what it would look like and what it would probably cost to build it. He called it surveying with photographs through the Grand Canyon; but the side canyons, where side canyons came in, we measured quite a number of those and at certain places, to connect up with points, we would run a line along the bluffs wherever we could get up. We would take the instrument and the level and the stadia rod, and take sights along wherever we could; sometimes they were nine hundred or a thousand feet apart, other places two or three hundred, wherever we could get up and make |