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Show Record paddle wheel attached to it. In response to questions propounded by the Special 1892 Master the witness Gerdine testified that he thinks that a map showing the sand bars would be a warning or would, to an extent, be a guide in navigating the river downstream; but that the contour crossings of the stream showing the profile of the stream are a far better index of what one would find than are the sand bars. William Hiram Edwards testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1893 I was born in 1866. For the next ten years following my arrival in Colorado in 1887 my occupation was with mining companies, railway surveys, and other things of that kind, in- 1894 cluding work on cattle ranches. I knew Robert Brewster Stanton in his lifetime, first meeting him in Denver, Colorado, where I was employed by him to go down the Colorado River. We left Green River, Utah with three 22 foot keel boats, having a 4 foot 1895 beam, and being 32 inches deep. They had ten air tight compartments along the sides and ends and water tight hatches where we could pack supplies and material that we did not care to have wet. There were twelve in our party, which included Mr. Nims, Mr. Payne, Mr. McDonald and others. We took the boats on wagons from 1896 Green River, Utah, to the mouth of Crescent Greek on the Colorado 1897 River, located about five or six miles above Hite. There we had no difficulty in launching our boats in the Colorado River on December 6 or 7, 1889. The purpose of that Stanton expedition was to make a railroad survey for the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, which was to run from Denver across the mountains about where the Moffat road now runs; down what was then the Grand River to somewhere near Elderado Canyon; Thence across to 1898 San Diego, California. After we loaded out boats, we went down to Hite and from there on down the river to Tickaboo Bar, where Mr. Stanton met some Omaha people who were there investigating 246 |
