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Show Hyde- D 619 would be natural river color; all at once it will turn red, if it is draining a red shale section on one of the dry washes, the water will become red; it will probably raise from that flood a foot or two; if a big flood, five or six feet; may not remain there over an hour; may not remain over a half an hour, until it starts to go down again. Do you have that condition generally, year after year, during the months of August and September? Generally, yes; but I couldn't say it was always such, because we have had seasons there when we never did have any rain in the country; all dry up and blow away. But the usual condition is, during those months you get these gully washes? That is when we get our bad ones; in October, sometimes; the biggest flood they ever had there was the fore part of October, that I know of; that is the one we talked about being the big flood; it came up about fourteen feet above the level of the river; came up to the floor of the store. What causes that usually, the storms come from the southwest, in that direction, and travel up the river; as they drop the water there, that water starts to run down, and is gone before the upper rains come in, but at this particular time the storm came from the east; it started to storm in the head of the San Juan, and as it came down, it built up to those dimensions when it got down there; that is known as the big flood. That is not a common occurrence that is the only time I ever knew it in my recollection. 2587 |