39.Station 8537 Up. Old No. 47. Brown-Stanton party. The caption errs. The camera is at Mile 213.2 left bank which would be Stanton's Sta. 8669. Sta. 8537 is Mile 215.7 making the error 2.5 miles. Compare 561099 CTCN 212.9.3
Station 8537 is Mile 215.7. Stanton surveyed his line along the left bank of the river May 31 from Station 8524 to Station 8723 or Mile 216 to Mile 212.2. [See original page for text quote from Stanton and Frank Mason Brown journals and photocopied contour map]
Papers of Otis R. Marston: Still images, 1870-1978. vols. 1-40, Colorado River and tributaries (Headwaters to Lee's Ferry) The Otis Marston Colorado River Collection
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