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Show 684 into the canyon below. You can't follow the river direct, that is, not along the bank of the river- itself. Up around Recompense there is a little canyon coming in that you have to work back and forth around. You can only get to the river itself in a few spots through there. In 1906 there were corn fields at what he called the Plate corn fields that were swept out by the floods of 1911. R. 1646- 1647. He estimates that Turner had a ranch of about seventy acres at the mouth of Red Canyon on the Colorado River. R. 1647. Further Examination ( R. Vol. 9 pp. 1648- 1650) " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. Let me get this clear, Mr. Wetherill. About those recognized crossings of the Colorado river between Hite and Lees Ferry, I understand you to say that there was a ferry near Rite, opposite white canyon? " A. Yes. " Q. That was a recognized crossing, was it? " A. That was a recognized crossing in the ' 80' s, early ' 80' s. " Q. Then there was a crossing bellow that named the Dandy crossing? " A. No, Hite is the Dandy crossing. |
