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Show 731 JULIUS F. STONE For Complainant ( R. Vol. 10, pp. 1760- 1799) He resides at Columbus, Ohio, is seventy years old, is engaged in manufacturing and banking; is also chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University; chairman of the Board of the Seagraves Corporation, a company engaged in the manufacture of fire equipment; and chairman of the Board of some banking institution. He was born in the state of Michigan, and lived there until he was thirteen years old, where he became accustomed to the handling of row boats and canoes. He afterwards handled sloops on Lake Erie, and, to some extent, motor boats; and operated boats on rivers. He first became interested in the Colorado River after reading a copy of Major Powell's book, " The Colorado River of the West." [ Exhibit No. 50.] A pictures in this book, showing the wreck of a boat at Disaster Falls, in Lodore Canyon, interested him very much, and he wondered if it were possible for people to go through places like that and live. His first view of the Colorado River was from the Blue Mountains in Colorado, in 1879. His first close view of the Colorado was in the year 1897, or 1898, when he went from Greenriver Station, Utah, by the way of Hanksville, Utah, to a point in Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, where Mr. Stanton was engaged in locating placer mining claims. He unfortunately was interested in the Stanton enterprise, as a stockholder. R. 1760- 1762. |
