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Show Record section. That was in later years when I was riding the range. I have seen men going up stream with their boats. I saw a boat going up stream at the mouth of Comb Wash, an old trading post there called Barton Cabin. There were four or five men in the boat. They would tow it in places and in other places they would row it. 4400 While I was there at Bluff as a boy I recall seeing carpenters and miners building boats. The boats that were made there in Bluff were taken down to the river directly south of the town about where the old ferry was, where the Indians crossed back and forth. The road went direct to the river. 4401 I have rafted wood on the San Juan River. I would take 20 to 30 cord of wood on a raft. I would get the raft 6 or 8 miles above Bluff and take it down to Bluff. When I became older and had occasion to ride the range, I forded the San Juan River at Different points. I used to ford at San Island, a mile or mile and a half below Bluff; and at the mouth 4402 of Comb Wash, and quite a lot a mile or two above Bluff. Below Bluff I have forded the river at Mexican Hat a number of time crossing the river for cattle. I remember one time in particular we swam across the river there with our horses to get cattle. I have crossed the San Juan at Gable Camp horseback and a number of other places, and as far up the river as the Colorado line. We used to ride from the Colorado line west. I have been to the mouth of the San Juan River. I have followed down the river on the south side from Gable Camp clear to the mouth; along the side of the river and in the hills on the river, and at various points I have been right down on the river. I have had occasion to cross it riding there a 4404 number of times. I have had small herds of cattle there. I remember the time when the San Juan was dry for a month or six weeks, something like that. After it ceased to the dry it came back to normal as I remember it. Aside from that year when the river was dry for a time, the shallowest place in the channel wherever I forded the river was from 2 1/ 2 feet deep to swimming water for a horse. That is true at |
