Show Notional National Publication Features Local River Raver Area The Christian Science Monitor Mon Mom Hor this week featured a first person story by Bill DIU Belknap on a Colorado River rover exploration trip made roade with the famed lamed river historian Otis Dock Marston a familiar lam Iowa Illar figure in Moab from his hi many past visits Photographs with the feature fea tea ture Included the 1836 D. D Julien Jullen Inscription on a canyon canyon can can- yon on wall along the river believed be bee to be the first white whiteman whiteman whiteman man man on the river According to Belknap Marston Marston Mar Mar- ston has hu confirmed the fact tact that D. D Jullen Julien preceded Major John Wesley Powell to navigate navigate navi gate Cataract Canyon on the Colorado river The Inscription inscription tion was first reported In 1889 by Robert Brewster Stanton a 11 railroad survey engineer and later noted by other river touring parties However since last reported In 1921 the Inscription had be been lost several parties had searched In vain for lor the historical and it Jt was believed no floods had eroded the explorers explorer's handiwork The riddle nagged Marston for lor years and when Lake Powell began forming behind Glen Canyon Dam he formed a party to make a last search for lor the inscription before belore It was inundated by the waters On the party were Jorgen Buz Du Buzz Belknap and the writer of ot the Bill Belknap The trip was purposely made during low wat water in hopes the inscription might plight be more readily found They rowed in rough little plastic skiffs 7 feet long and weighing only 38 pounds each carrying one man and his gear A full luU search was undertaken at Cataract Canyon which beins be bee ins just below the con confluence of 01 the Green and Colorado I 65 miles mUes south of Moab By Dy I carefully studying old journals journals jour jour- nals and photographs Marston Marston Mar Mar- ston stop had selected a mile half of 01 shoreline near Cove Canyon for lor an intensive search for lor forthe forthe the lost inscription It was about midday April 3 1964 when Marston That stretch ahead sh should uld be hot and they waded to shore Suddenly there It Jt was wasa a year old name on a canyon wall which read 1836 D. D Julien Jullen Their finding was hastily photographed to preserve for tor posterity Little more is known of D. D Jullen Julien than four Utah rocks that b bear ar his name Two are on the Green river dated 3 Mai Mal and 16 Mal Mai 1836 one with crude sketch of ot a boat hint that he was headIng headIng head head- Ing upstream A third near Fort Robidoux on the UInta river reads Denis Jullen Julien 1831 Research by Utah historian historIan historian ian Charles Kelly shows Julien Julien Jullen Ju Ju- lien llen came west from St. St Louis to trap beaver and probably was connected with Antoine Rubidoux who established Utah's first permanent trad trade tradIng trading ing post Dock Marstons Marston's confirmation confirma confirma- tion of ot the Cataract carving fits one more piece into the puzzle Belknap says and suggests suggests' that that trapper Julien Jullen may have navigated the Co Colorado Co 0 lorado even farther south |