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Show 652 Las Vegas, Nevada, and from Las Vegas, Nevada, over the Mojave Country to Los Angeles, about where the railroad now runs, then on up the coast to Monterey. R. 1567- 1569. The trail left the Virgin River about thirty- five or forty miles above the point where the Virgin empties into the Colorado. In all of his investigation of the historic data surrounding the Spanish Trail, he did not find that the Spaniards or the people working with then ever used the San Juan, the Green or the Colorado River for navigation purposes. R. 1569. From about 1835 there was extensive fur trapping in and about the Green River and these furs were taken out of the country by pack train, with their ultimate objective at St. Louis, Missouri. R. 1570. As the country developed, they had other trails from the locality of Denver, Colorado, mainly down the Platte and Arkansas [ rivers]. He never found any evidence that the fur traders ever used the Colorado River for trade or travel by boat, except Ashley, who went down as far as the Unitah Basin on one expedition, and as far as he, Dellenbaugh, knows, the fur traders never uses the Green or the part of the Colorado then known as the Grand River for trade or travel by boat. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol 9, pp. 1571- 1586.) With furs, the same as with other commodities, the seller seeks the market. R. 1571. |