Brown’s Expedition 345 
and twenty feet above low water, so that for the whole distance 
through the Marble-Grand Canyon there would seldom be room 
beside the tracks for even a station. But Frank M. Brown 
had faith, and a company for the construction of the Denver, 
Colorado Canyon, and Pacific Railway was organised. Brown 
Looking down the Canyon de Chelly, a Tributary of the San Juan and 
Containing many Cliff Houses. 
Photograph by Ben. Wittick. 
was the president, and in 1889 he formed an expedition to sur¬ 
vey the line. 
On March 25th the preliminary party, consisting of F. M. 
Brown, F. C. Kendrick, chief engineer, and T. P. Rigney, as¬ 
sistant engineer, left Denver for Grand Junction, a station on 
the Rio Grande Western (near the C of Colorado, State name 
on map, p. 51), and the next morning set the first stake for the 
