a rapid on Grand River above Moab. Photograph by R. G. Leonard. His
experience on this river ran through a period of some 20 years from
about 1892. He died in the autumn of 1913. Every year he built one or
more boats trying to improve on each. The Stone model (see cut, page
129) was the final outcome. The usual high-water mark at Bright Angel
Trail is 45 feet higher than the usual low-water mark. Stanton
measured the greatest declivity in Cataract Canyon and found it to be
55 feet in two miles. The total fall in Cataract Canyon he made 355
feet. With a fall per mile of 27 1/2 feet. Cataract holds the record
for declivity, though this is only for two miles, while in the
Granite Falls section of the Grand Canyon there is a fall of 21 feet
per mile for ten miles.




THE ROMANCE OF THE COLORADO RIVER

CHAPTER I.

The Secret of the Gulf--Ulloa, 1539, One of the Captains of Cortes,
Almost Solves it, but Turns Back without Discovering--Alarcon, 1540,
Conquers.

In every country the great, rivers have presented attractive pathways
for interior exploration--gateways for settlement. Eventually they
have grown to be highroads where the rich cargoes of development,
profiting by favouring tides, floated to the outer world. Man, during
all his wanderings in the struggle for subsistence, has universally
found them his friends and allies. They have yielded to him as a