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Show ( Maude Afaude ) Kwidiick testified 101 : I once forded ( the 'the the ) Green River at Trap ford , about two miles north of Green River bridge , on horseback , in the summer of 1910 , and have seen others ford at that place . The water came approximately to the stirrups when I crossed . I once went from the Wolverton Ranch to Three Forks Canyon in a row boat with Mr . Wolverton and his daughter and came back up in a motor boat . ( R . 3343-9 , Vol . 18 . ) ( Hugh Hug7i ) H . Hyde testified : I once spent some time at Bluff and have worked at Mexican Hat . In 1921 ( I 1 ) was with the Trimble party on the San Juan River as rod man . The water varied at different seasons of the year ; sometimes when the river was high we ( didn't didnt ) attempt to go swimming and in the summer it got real low . Once , just ( west vest ) of Bluff I took bucks across the river and the water ( didn't didnt ) go over my riding ( boots 'boots boots ) . On one occasion , about the year 1916 , ( I 1 ) heard a noise up Cottonwood Wash and saw what appeared to be a wall of about five or six feet of water rolling ( down dowm ) that wash , carrying trees , etc . , with it . ( Cot- Cot ) tonwood Wash empties into the San Juan River . I have seen the San Juan River rise four or five feet in an hour . It carries more sand and sediment during summer floods than at spring high water . I have seen sand waves and when in swimming have swum over them . At points five or six miles both ways from Bluff I have skated on the river , and we generally have skating every year . ( R . 3350-8 , Vol . 18 . ) I know that some members of the Trimble party went down the San Juan River to get some supplies at the mouth of the river and bring them back up the river . I ( don't dont ) recall whether or not Mr . Christensen went down but I do ( remem remem- remem ) ber that someone went down and brought supplies back up from the Colorado River when our camp was about six miles from the mouth of the San Juan . ( R . 3358-9 , Vol . 18 . ) I am one of the persons who appears in the photograph lettered B on Plate 19 of Exhibit 56 ; the water became so muddy that the fish swam to the edge of the river and we were killing them with sticks ; I have never seen the fish in that condition at any other time on the San Juan River . ( R . 3359 , Vol . 18 . ) Elliott Bird testified : I am a surveyor with the U . S . Land Office and was with a survey party from the Paria River to the Arizona line , and in making this survey we got |