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Show Hyde- D 600 roads - as broke a track through from Montezuma up the river to another little settlement seven miles above, they call Twin City, or Peter's Nipple; there we left the San Juan river and went across the desert country at the south pass of the Ute mountains. that is a blue clay formation that gets up into the Mancos shales there. We crossed the mouth of the Mancos river - that is a part pear time river that flows into the San Juan, up past what is now Shiprock, only on the north side of the river all the time, up to the Hogsback where some of the witnesses testified yesterday; there was no road made around the Hogsback; we had to take our wagons to the Park to get then around, and pack our loads over or drag then with the teams. We did our freighting in the winter time. We went up Canyon Largo, and over to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the summer time we went to Alamosa, Colorado, across the pane, that is all tributaries to the San Juan, the places I have named. Canyon large is a large sand wash that comes into the San Juan up above Farmington; you can tell that that in where the sand first originates into the San Juan river system. Take the San Juan proper, from Canyon Largo up, it is a hard bottom river all the way through, clear water; when you get there where the Canyon Large dumps its silt in, from there on down it is more or less roily, and the further down 2568 |