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Show Record " We now pushed out, and owing to the long stretches of smooth water, with very few rapids, we arrived at Lees Ferry, 150 miles below, on the afternoon of July 2nd, expecting to find a full supply of provisions here that had been ordered shipped." That odes not mean that it was smooth water all the way. We had difficulty on several of these rapids. We had to stop and repair our boats from leaking. Through that stretch of river from the foot of Cataract 1445 Canyon down the river touches the sides of the canyon and goes up on the talus at places and for considerable stretches - nearly all the way down on one side or the other. On printed page 262 of Exhibit 177 in the article entitled " Through the Colorado River" I make the following statement: 1446 " In the canons above Lees Ferry it is rare that the water washes the bases of the perpendicular cliffs, as a talus is formed from the fragments of rocks that have fallen, or were washed, from the cliffs themselves. In some places these taluses are two hundred feet or more high, sloping from 20 to 80 degrees from the vertical." I found an inscription down there in that section of " D. Julian, 1836". With reference to that inscription, on page 263 of Exhibit 177 I make the following statement: 1447 " As it could be made only from the water by some one either in a boat or raft, we concluded that it was done by one of a party of French Canadians, or voyageurs, who were supposed to have attempted to explore this river 36 years before Major Powell's party passed through here." " What their fate was I have been unable to learn." On page 265 of Exhibit 177 I made the following statement: " From the mouth of Dirty Devil River to Lees Ferry, a distance of 150 miles, are vast beads of placer mines, which are nearly all located and staked, some of them by members of our party." Then I go on and describe those placers and the way they are operated, and say: 1448 " As this is the highway between Utah and Arizona." That is at Lees Ferry and then I say: " He operates the ferry to a good profit." That is what W. M. Johnson told me. 1449 On page 75 of Exhibit 177 in the article " Profile negatives |