D.C.C. & P. Inscription "B"

Inscription "B" is a survey mark that was left at the confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers in Utah in 1889 by the Robert Brewster Stanton party as they surveyed a railway route. The inscription reads: STA 84. 89 + 50 D. C. C. &.P. R.R. May 4th 1 8 8 9 Stanton and his crew were surveying for a proposed railroad, the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad (D.C.C. & P.), which was planned to run from Grand Junction, Colorado to the Gulf of California. The railroad was never built. The inscription measures about by on a boulder about from the Green River. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 7, 1988.