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Show 1543 3521 32 Delenbaugh- D one corner; outside they had begun to build -- I suppose may have been eight or ten houses built outside of the fort; they were beginning to gain confidence then. The Navajos had been pacified, and the piutes had been, and they had little to fear then from the Indians. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q. How many people were there there? A. Oh, I should say there weren't more than four or five hundred people at the outside. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q. Was there a post office there? A. Yes, there was a post office, and a telegraph line. Q. Do you know how merchandise supplies and things of that kind were brought in to the town of Kanab? A. They were brought by wagon from Salk Lake City, almost everything. Q. Do you know how the post office was served, how the mail was brought in? A. By rider, post rider. Q. Before you leave the Colorado river, had you sent out some maps, fossils, specimens and so forth? A. Sent out some fossils, but no maps. Q. And from what point did you send those out, and how? A. The first fossils we sent out were sent by a party of prospectors that we happened to see and signal up on the upper Green river, way up, not far below Green river crossing; we signaled to |