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Show Butt- D 547 A It is a big gulch comes down from a Bluff about two thousand feet high, a crack in the rock at the head of that. We sent to Salt Lake City and got the legislature to appropriate money enough to buy enough powder to shoot our way through; we shot it off with black powder so it was passable. Fifty- or sixty families were marooned on the other side; they couldn't get back to their old habitations on account of the deep snow, and they couldn't come this way because there was no road to come on; so the legislature appropriated a thousand pounds of black powder an fuse and cape to shoot our way through to come to Bluff City on the San Juan river. Q That place you cal Hole- in- the- Rock is right about opposite the mouth of the San Juan river, isn't it? A It is seven miles above the mouth of the San Juan river in this direction, northeast, -- the Hole- in- the- Rock, how did you get across the Colorado river? A We sent and got a ferry boat; got carpenters to come down from Escalante and help make a boat; they brought tools down; we had carpenters in our delegation; they brought the tools there, and made a row of ferry boats to row our wagons and bluff over on the other side of the Colorado River. BY SPECIAL MASTER: Q To row across the Colorado river? A Yes sir. Q You built the boats there? A Right on the ground, on the north side of the river. 2513 |