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Show 3498 1520 9 Dellenbaugh- D Q What date did you start from Green River, Wyoming? A May 22, 1871. Q Mr. Dellenbaugh, will you tell me briefly the progress of that expedition from Green River, Wyoming, to Greenriver, Utah? THE SPECIAL MASTER: Go into this rather rapidly, that portion of the journey. MR. BLACKMAR: Yes. Q From Green River, Wyoming, to what is now Greenriver. Utah. A You mean a description of the river? Q No, of the trip. A Trip? THE SPECIAL MASTER: Rather briefly, Mr. Witness. A We left Green River; Wyoming, on the 22nd of May, 1871, and for eighty miles the river, except for a few sandbars which we ran on, is easily negotiated. Then, when you enter Flaming gorge, you come into the canyoned region, the river is canyoned then for about a thousand miles, with the exception of Brown's Park and Uintah Basin. The third canyon, Red canyon, is twenty- five miles long and very precipitous. I have forgotten, I think the fall is three or four hundred feet in the twenty- five miles. Then you run next into Lodore canyon, which is a very severe canyon, where Powell lost a boat on the first expedition, smashed it at Disaster falls. That is one of the most difficult canyons of the river. |