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Show 17 and he had party of men with him, and in that party was Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, who is recognized as a leading authority today upon the Colorado River, as its historian. There is one thing about the second Powell expedition that I think is peculairly significant. Powell had been through with his first expedition; he had trouble about supplies. When it came to a question of arranging for his party to be re- supplied, those supplies were not sent down the river, but they were sent over land, and he picked them up upon the march at various points along the river, which is, of course, at variance with any theory of navigation. In 1889 Robert Bruce Stanton, an engineer, of New York City, surveyed a right of way down through the canyon. He had some idea that it was feasible to build a railroad. He was going to have an all- water route from the Green River, Utah, down to the Gulf of Mexico. And he and his boats went down there; but it was purely a trip of exploration and not one of trade or commerce. Since that time there have been several trips down this river- Cooper, Julius Cohn, Lewis R. Freeman, and others. The latest exploration of that river was made by Mr. Clyde Eddy, who will be a witness in this case. He went down the river in 1927; and I think his testimony will be to the effect that the river is no more navigable today than it was when Major Powell and his parties went down the river. 1978 |