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Show Record a ditch some sixty feet above the river. They had farmed probably two hundred acres on the river bottoms at that place and we could trace out the line of their ditches and laterals where they irri-gated the land. There was no sign of any trail to the river or 1969 indicating how they went in or left there. When Stanton's party was at the place shown on Exhibit 248, known as Cranberry Point in Cataract Canyon, they there found a half barrel of cut loaf sugar, and on our trip we dug around in the sand there and found a dozen quarts of cranberry jam. The date appearing on the box was 1836. From this incident we named this place Cranberry Point. 1972 Exhibit 254 is a picture of some fish caught in the Colorado River. I saw the head of one fish that weighed eighty pounds. Exhibit 257 is a picture of Good Hope Bar, showing the flume by which they put water on the bar. William Hiram Edwards testified on recross examination as follows: 1975 We took a great many pictures in Glen and Stillwater Canyons, but after the pictures were returned to Denver they were not developed. Those produced here by me are just a few that we developed. About three hundred other were exposed to the light 1976 and ruined after reaching Denver. A great many of the spoiled pictures were pictured taken through Glenn and Stillwater Canyons. Narrow Canyon is the only box canyon encountered. In response to interrogatories propounded by the Special Master William Hiram Edwards testified as follows: 1977 There is a trail from Hite to Good Hope Bar; I don't know whether it goes further. I doubt whether a horse could tow 1978 a boat along the banks up and down from Cataract Canyon. The Major Powell was a boat thirty- five feet long, with two six horse-power steam engines, and in my opinion that not sufficient horsepower we could have come up the river better. The current of the river was the principal trouble and if we had had sufficient 257 |