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Show Record made deliveries of supplies to people who were going down the San Juan River in boats. That happened just once. There were two in the party. They came to the store and bought a few supplies and 4482 I took them back to the river in a car. I don't think their boat was over 14 or 15 feet long and about 5 feet wide. The boat that my pardner and I used on the river was about 4 1/ 2 feet wide and 15 feet long. The boats that the three parties had that passed me while at Copper Canyon were small row boats similar to the one I had. While I was at Bluff I did not see any boats that were made there. I saw two boats that came in on trucks . They said they were going to take the river at Sand Island. I saw them pass through Bluff. I know Hugh Hyde, a boy from Bluff, went down with them. 4484 On my trips down the San Juan, and from Bluff to Copper Canyon, we had no difficulties to speak of. We were stuck a couple of times I remember on sand bars. We tried to keep in the deepest channel and avoid all the sand bars we could. I have no recollection of more than two occasions where we got onto a sand bar. We had two months supplies with us. I think the whole outfit weighed about 600 pounds. When we came to a rapid we went through it straight. We did no portage or line our boat. We got through alright. John L. Hunt testified on cross examination as follows: 4485 That was the only trip I ever made on the river. I did not know any of the placer miners. When I got through down there I gave my boat to an Indian. J. H. Woods testified for defendant on direct examination 4489 as follows: I reside in Salt Lake City at present. I am fifty- four years old. I resided in San Juan County about 1883 until 1923. The early part of my life was spent at Bluff, on the San Juan River, and 4480 later at Monticello, the County seat. I was County Assessor twice, 649 |