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Show 389 Canyon to Kane Springs amphitheater. " The divide between Kane Springs Canyon and the Colorado River at one place there is very narrow. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER! " Q. Very what? " A. Very narrow. We had concluded we would drive a short tunnel through that divide and overoome the seven hundred foot climb we wound have to make with a wagon road over that divide. " We from there could follow the bench of the Shafer limestone down to the Colorado River and thence to the well location. " He ever, that was not the road of least resistance. " In the matter of locating a wild- out well in what was at that time considered very wild- cat country we had to take into consideration from a consulting standpoint to a lower as much as possible all costs in connection with the work. " We had, during our survey work, consulted United States water supply paper, bulletin No. 335 and 336, which was the 1931 - these bulletins were published, I believe, prior to 1931 - which contained maps of the course of the Colorado River as well as profile surveys. " We used these maps in order to guide our work through the country. We fitted together the course of the river - the maps were similar to these newer maps, so that we had a trip sic strip map of the course of the Colorado River from Moab down to Indian Creek. " We had the north direction on the map we were carrying our traverse in, and checked back and forth the traverse as |