Field Notes, 1889 May 10-1889 December 26

File — Box: 16, Volume: 1-2

Identifier: VI

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

First and second expeditions. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together. "... for a preliminary survey and examination of a R.R. route from Grand Junction, Colorado to the Gulf of California and San Diego, by way of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. ..." This railroad would be called the Denver, Colorado Canon and Pacific Railroad Company. In July, at the end of the first expedition, at the mouth of Paria Creek, Stanton concluded: "From the head of the Colorado to the San Juan a railway can be constructed with no more difficulty than along any mountain slope and with much less difficulty in some respects--for by stealing in some places the line from the river, a most excellent alignment can be gotten with a grade not to exceed 16 2/3 ft. per mile or 3/10 of one percent."

Dates

1889 May 10-1889 December 26

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