Brown and Stanton set off downriver from Grand Junction in the spring of 1889. Westwater and Cataract canyons would prove tough for a railroad, but Glen Canyon gave them encouragement. Then, only a few miles below Lees Ferry, BrownΓÇÖs boat capsized in the eddies below Soap Creek Rapids and despite attempts to save him, Brown drowned. Stanton went on over two years to survey the remainder of the river, but the company
