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Show Record The hearing was resumed at Los Angeles, California, on September 23, 1929. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1514 I am 76 years old and reside in New York City. I am an 1515 artist and writer and joined the Powell expedition in 1871 as a topographer. We launched our boats at the Union Pacific Railway bridge in Wyoming and spent seven months on our journey down the river to what is new called Lee's Ferry, carrying on our topography work on land through the winter of 1871- 1872, and in August, 1872, entered Marble Gorge of the Grand Canyon and descended as far as the mouth of Kanab Canyon. There we left river and continued our topographic and geodetic work on land. In December, 1872 and January, 1875 we laid out the first map of the region north of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and southern Utah. I took the map to Salt Lake City in February, 1873 and went east from there. 1516 In 1875 I rode from Salt Lake almost to San Bernardino, California, by way of Kanab and the Virgin River. In 1876 I made a second trip as far as Las Vegas and back to St. George and Kanab, and was around the Grand Canyon and various parts of southern Utah and northern Arizona at that time. In 1884 and 1885 I went to the four corners and lived with the Hopi Indians for four or five weeks on the first mesa of the Hopis, spending the remainder of the winter at Keen's Canyon. In 1899 I went to the Northwest via Salt Lake City, In 1903 I was in the Zion's Canyon and Grand Canyon country on the north side of the river. In 1907 I was on the south side of the Grand Canyon and through that region to 1517 California. The second Powell Expedition of 1871 was headed by John Wesley Powell and was financed by a congressional appropria-tion. We drew rations from Ft. Bridger. We had three boats, 22 feet long, three compartments in each boat, leaving two places for the rowers. The boats were covered to keep out water when running 1518 rapids. The draft of the boats loaded was about 18 inches. They 199 |