ASCEBT ABD RAMIEG OF MOUNT POWELL 
NAMED BY W. E. HOLMES, 1873. 
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It was only a few days after the ascent of the 
Mountain of the Holy Cross that a party of four of us, 
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members of the Hayden Survey, found ourselves after a 
weary six hours 1 climb, upon the summit of a massive moun¬ 
tain some sixty miles north of the Mountain of the Cross. 
Reaching the summit, I found a heap of stones — a monument 
such as visitors to these unusual heights build to commemor¬ 
ate their achievement. Examing this structure carefully, 
I found concealed within a small tin can, which, when opened 
was found to contain a dessicated and discolored biscuit and 
a bit of paper upon which was written in pencil a dedication 
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of the biscuit to the finder. This had been placed here 
six years before by Major J. W. Powell, explorer of the 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and was signed by him. I at 
once turned to the party and proposed that as a fitting 
recognition of this occurrence we should dedicate the mountain 
itself to the doughty explorer, and now you will find that on 
the maps of Colorado this peak is known as Mount Powell. 
