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Show 640 Kanab by following the base of the Trumble Cliffs to Houserock Springs, then in a northwesterly direction over the Kaibab Plateau into Prisoner Valley, a wide valley south of Kanab, and across this valley to Eight-mile Spring, then on to Kanab where our headquarters for the rest of the season were located. R. 1.541- 1542. Kanab, at that time, consisted of a fort, with a stockade of one- story log houses, a school- house and eight or ten houses outside the fort. The Navajos and Piutes had been pacified and the settlers had little to fear from the Indians. There weren't more than four or five hundred people at the outside. There was a post- office and a telegraph line, supplies were brought in to Kanab by wagon from Salt Lake City, and the mail was brought in by a post rider. R. 1543. Up to this time, they had sent out no maps but had sent out some fossils, the first fossils being sent out by a party of prospectors that were seen about two miles back in the country above Flaming Gorge, thirty or forty miles below Green River, Wyoming, whom they signaled to and got them to take the fossils out. The next fossils were sent out to the Uintah Agency, on the Duchesne River, which was located about forty miles from the Green River, then nothing was sent out until we reached Kanab. They encountered no boats between the junction of the Green and the Colorado Rivers and Lees Ferry, and saw no prospectors between Flaming Gorge and the Crossing of the Fathers, a distance of about nine hundred miles. |