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Show A . S . ( Woods 11foods ) testified : 130 I am 53 years old , went to Bluff , Utah , when I was a boy and lived there until 1905 , and now reside at Monticello . I have been in the cattle business all my life . As a boy , I saw miners on the San Juan River in their boats and observed a number of boats at different places on the river ; some of the boats were being moved up and down the river and others I have seen stationed at the side of the river . I recall seeing two different boats taken down and put on the river at Bluff . I have seen miners in their boats at different points on the river and in later years , when I was riding the range , I have seen boats at Comb Wash , Gable Camp and Mexican Hat section . I saw a boat going upstream at a point near Comb Wash . There were four or five men in that boat and they towed in places and in other places rowed ( up- up ) stream . ( R . 4397-9 , Vol . 25 . ) When I was a boy at Bluff boats were made there and taken down to the river directly south of town . ( R . 4400 , Vol . 25 . ) ( I 1 ) have rafted wood , taking 20 or 30 cord on the raft from points 6 or 8 miles above Bluff down to Bluff . ( ( E R ) . 4400-1 , Vol . 25 . ) Since I began riding the range I have crossed the river at Sand Island , which is about a mile and a half or two miles west of Bluff , and at Comb Wash , Mexican Hat and Gable Camp , and have ridden the range down to the mouth of the San Juan and have followed the stream on the south side from Gable Camp clear to the mouth , at various points being ( right rigbt ) at the river . Except on one occasion , when the river went dry , I do not recall any time or place on the river when the water was not from two or two and a half feet deep to swimming water ; I am speaking of the very lowest stage of water . Except during the low water stage , you can not cross the San Juan River without swimming your horse . I have crossed the river in most all the months of the year , including the winter time ; possibly during two months in the high water season we would not cross the river . Swimming a river is not a very difficult or unusual feat for cattlemen . ( R . 4401-6 , Vol . 25 . ) I only recall two occasions when floods came down the river so that it overflowed its banks and came on to the higher ground above its channel ; thesetwo occasions were in different years . Our ordinary form of summer rain is not a cloudburst . ( R . 4407-8 , Vol . 25 . ) - " |