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Show Record at the mouth of the canyon and the remains of an irrigation ditch, some five or six miles above the town of Green River. As I recall the ditch was not in very good state of repair and apparently had not been used for some time. Above that to Mc- Pherson's ranch the country was very rough and broken, high ledges coming down to the river, with no valley width between 2665 them and the stream. I think McPherson's land was irrigated from a small tributary of the Green River. On that trip I went probably as far as three miles east of the river an the description I have given includes that width. We got our supplies overland from Green River and I had no occasion to go on the river. In 1925 I was in the vicinity of Flaming Gorge near the 2666 Wyoming line. On that trip I was in a boat and we used a boat in our meander survey work along the river. The boat used to stick on sand bars and was a row boat probably fourteen or sixteen feet long. I went into that country by automobile from Green River, Wyoming, to our camp, and from there over to the river on horseback. In that section of the country there are a few small farms on Sheep Creek, which runs into the Green River, 2667 but I know of no other settlements or farms there, those at Sheep Creek not being very large, possibly ten to twenty acres. In 1924 I drove from Bluff down to the bridge at Goodrich, where I crossed, and then out to one of our camps on the west side of Douglas mesa, about seven or eight miles below Goodrich 2668 on an air line. I went to Bluff by auto, leaving the auto thirty- Five or thirty- eight miles west of Bluff, and thence to our camp by horseback and pack animal. There is an Indian trader at Goodrich and some temporary residents around the oil camps there, where they were drilling for oil, but there was not really an oil well. The oil operations were ten miles southwesterly from Goodrich 2669 bridge, along the road and a little ways south of the San Juan River. The country I went over on this trip is a rough, |