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of the American Placer Corporation. The Kolbs found seven or eight buildings arranged on both sides of a short street, all of them built of rock and plastered with adobe or mud. They were shown the building that had been "Lee's stronghold," a square building with loopholes in the sides. A post office was in operation at the time at the old Lee ranch across the Paria River from the ferry which, soon after the original one was launched, had been moved upstream from below the mouth of the Paria to a point about two miles above it. In this location the ferry was about a half mile above the cluster of rock buildings. The American Placer Corporation's operations did not last long. By the end of 1913 mining had ceased, the Charles H. Spencer was tied up on the bank where its remains may still be seen, (Figs. 31-33) and only a few marks had been made from hydraulic operations in the Chinle beds. Some of the heaviest machinery was left behind, including two huge steam boilers (Fig. 34), still to be seen behind the largest rock house which was probably the company's headquarters. Since 1913, Lee's Ferry has felt the impact of mining activity in Glen Canyon: the oil excitement of the 1920's; gold placering during the Great Depression; the uranium rush following World War II. The actual location of the ferry at Lee's Ferry was the point of beginning (Mile O, River Map Sheet A) for the detailed survey of the Colorado River from that place to the mouth of the Green River, including the San Juan River from its mouth to Chinle Creek, undertaken in 1921 by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Southern California Edison Company of Los Angeles. This was in anticipation of reclamation developments in the upper basin. The next year, 1922, was an important milestone in the history of the Colorado River when the Colorado River Compact was signed. The Compact essentially divides the available water of the Colorado River between the upper basin states and the lower basin states. The point of division between the upper and lower basins, as established in the Compact, is at Lee's Ferry, or, precisely, at a point one mile below the mouth of the Paria River, not far from the location of the first ferry here across the Colorado. Since 1921 the U. S. Geological Survey has maintained a stream gaging station at Lee's Ferry to gather data on discharge, sediment load, and chemical quality of the water of the Colorado River. A gaging station is also maintained by the Survey at the mouth of the Paria River just above the old John D. Lee ranch. Although John D. Lee and Emma Lee referred to the place as Lonely Dell, Lee's Ferry has otherwise been the universal name for this historie spot. U.S. Geological Survey usage, eliminating the apostrophe from Lee's name (example: USGS topographical quadrangle "Lees Ferry" 1954), makes another word of it. 96Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,452,736 byte