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Show bank of the Colorado. mild celebration on the east should have held a Mounta in. n the jou rna lis Navajo "B lack Bluff" menti oned .l The RESEARCH METHODS Research methods with the November 3 were - 6 connection already described in be given. However, some detai Is must similar to those diary entries. Mi Iler, W. H. Snell and T. Joseph 1950 Dr. C. G. Crampton, Dr. D. E. The party camped at the Lee's Ferry. Steed made a boat trip from Hite to as the Crossing of the mouth of Kane Wash (which was erroneously designated bank of Padre Creek and thence down Fathers) and hiked overland to the east cut in the east At that time the men examined the steps to the canyon floor. set supposedly additional I as those cut by Escalante and an canyon wal I as wei At that time a metal box containing a register carved out by Jacob Hamblin. Mi I ler remembers having book was located at the base of the Hamblin steps. down Padre Creek to hiked travelers The 1950 signed that book as number 69. the the on canyon wal I just below its mouth to take a look at a plaque placed there was The level. placed plaque mouth of Padre Creek and above high water It and Byron Davies. in 1937 by Dr. Russell G. Frazier, Charles Kelly, As the crossing. the Dominguez-Escalante carries the basic information about the in and custody removed was the placed plaque waters of Lake Powel I rose, of the Knights of Columbus, Salt Lake City. In unti I very The official name of present Padre Creek was Navajo Canyon Stone F. Julius suggested the of expedition members In 1938 recent times. access that for one During his a canyon. as Creek Padre proper the name of the U. S. Board on Geographic explorations of the 1950s, Dr. Mi I ler requested His request was denied at that name. names to make Padre Creek the official time but subsequently adopted. time to time de fording place probably changed slightly from river of water, and the season pending on the shifting sandbars, the volume a temporary sandbar reaching Drs. Crampton and Miller found of the year. From that at river point in March 1958. three-fourths of the way across the three than more not it at the water ripple finding a boat the two measured the The actual feet deep. Escalante's estimate that the ford was a mi Ie wide would have to from Padre Creek to the sandbar at the east side of the river. mean there were some interesting petroglyphs AI I of this indicating steps leading to the canyon rim. It is known to have been used that the ford had been in use a long time. However, after Lee's Ferry by Jacob Hamblin and others in historic times. At the base of and a series of began operation in its actual twentieth the west canyon wal I foothold location the was 1870s the fel I into decades only river ford lost for several century. -174- and more disuse unti I to be relocated during the more |
