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Show Record present time a vast, undeveloped empire, and, in my opinion, has 2880 tremendous potentialities. There have been placer operations along the Colorado River both above and below Moab, although those operations have been more prospecting than anything else. In the Lasal mountains prospecting and mining operations have been under way for forty or fifty years. The prospecting of the Colorado River in the neighborhood I mention has been in progress within the last two or three years. The Big Indian copper properties are located twenty- five miles southeast of Moab. There the copper occurs in sandstone, and I understand there are a great 2881 many showings of mineral wealth in that region. There is some coal at Monticello and there is some coal going through Moab, shipped from Sego. There is a coal camp five miles north of Thompson in Grand County. There are some small coal deposits east of Monticello, but I think the grade of coal is very poor. However, there have been some operations there. L. L. Taylor testified on redirect examination as follows: 2882 I would say that I have seen four lumber rafts come down the Colorado River, and my reference to the general use of the river for lumber rafts is limited to the four times that I saw lumber rafts. I don't recall the month of the year when I saw 2883 them. The Grand Valley Times is now called the Times Independent. At this point complainant offered in evidence certain news items clipped from the Grand Valley Times and marked Exhibit 460. 2887 In admitting this exhibit the Special Master stated that he would expect counsel to call his attention specifically to such articles or excerpts in the exhibit as were evidence of facts. Continuing his redirect examination the witness testified as follows: Since 1915 mail has been brought into Moab by truck and 2888 bus from Thompson, and prior to that time was brought from Thompson by wagon, Thompson being generally the shipping point for Moab. The trip from Moab to Thompson consumes form one to two |
