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Show 1056 we could get machinery down that way, but the road was very poor, and the state since then has spent about fifteen thousand dollars on the same enterprise, and it is a poor road yet." R. 2505- 2507. He continued operations in the San Juan country until about 1925 and during that time he saw the river frequently, having lived in Bluff until 1913, then moving to Monticello, but was back and forth because of interests he had on the river. He saw a few small boats on the river that belonged mostly to prospectors who came down Farmington [ New Mexico]. He never knew of any placer miners or oil prospectors bringing machinery in the country with boats down the river [ San Juan]. A few prospectors came down the river in boats but he never saw any of them go back up the river. R. 2507- 2508. " Q Did any of the merchants there in Bluff use the river for sending out merchandise or receiving merchandise? " A No. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q To your knowledge. " A To my knowledge, no. The merchants kept a ferry boat; they would trade with the Indians on the south side, and the Indians were the only people that could man a ferry boat there, because they could strip of their clothes and zig- zag the boat across, back and forwards, in that way; never had any cable across, because there was no current for it." R. 2508. He has observed sand waves at many points along the river from Bluff on down. Sand waves occur usually during high water and after storms. R. 2508. He has crossed the San Juan River with burros a few times. " I had occasion to cross the San Juan a number of times the |