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Show Record the pictures that I was able to find that were taken on either of the expeditions were not introduced in evidence. Mr. Collins selected the pictures that were brought here. On our first expedition our survey was completed to a point below Lee Ferry. On my first expedition I stopped at Lees Ferry. There was a Mormon community at that point then and a post-office. The main highway between Utah and Arizona passed Lees 1430 Ferry then and it was a well used road. 1431 On my first expedition I left the canyon about 45 miles below Lees Ferry and made my way across the country to the main traveled road, which was the road between Utah and Arizona that 1432 crossed the river at Lee Ferry. When I got up to that road I went on from there on a good road up to Milford. 1433 Complainant's Exhibit No. 177, entitled" Miscellaneous, by Franklin A. Nims", " Commonwealth, August, 1890", and " Through 1434 the Colorado River", was written by me at a time when the incidents of the trip were fresher in my mind than they are now, and at a time when I had the benefit of my notes and the diary that I kept. On page 258 of that exhibit and the preceding page, refer to getting the boats to Greenriver and preparing to start on the journey. Then on page 258 I make this statement; " We had a pleasant sail down the Green of 120 miles to its junction with the Grand, forming the Colorado." I refer there to my journey from the town of Greenriver 1435 to the mouth of the GreenRiver. It was not a pleasant sail, it was pleasant in some ways but unpleasant in others. Of course on a trip of that length on a river I would expect to have some little accident or incident that wouldn't be entirely pleasant. I did not intend that statement to be a general statement that the trip was a pleasant said down that stretch of the river. The only object in writing it was to eliminate the troubles that we had. |