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Show Record San Juan there is some mean land and there is a good deal of broken country between Bluff and Goodrich bridge. It is grazing country with very little vegetation. On that trip I didn't get down to the San Juan River. In 1925 I went to a point about twelve miles down Copper Canyon from the Moonlight trading 2670 post, about fifty- five miles below Bluff, to our camp which was located approximately two or three miles from the San Juan River. The country I covered was about the same as that I have described on my previous trip. On my last mentioned trip I didn't go into the San Juan Canyon. Again in 1926 I went by auto and truck to a point near the mouth of Nokai Canyon some seventeen to twenty miles beyond Moonlight. The character of the country is a 2671 lot rougher and more broken down there. On that trip I crossed the San Juan River at the mouth of Nokai Canyon. I am pretty certain it was in November. I crossed the river on horseback and observed the depth of water as closely as I could and it varied from a few inches to probably a foot, some pools possibly eighteen inches. I only made the one crossing, over and back the same day. The river bed was quite sandy and shifting in its nature. I was with our party there for several days and our camp was only a few hundred yards from the San Juan River. I should judge that the river was about six hundred feet wide where the water was flowing at that time; it was shallow and seemed to have a number of channels; the channels would shift from one side to the other, which shifting condition seemed to continue all the time I was there. Our supplies came overland by trucks, wagons 2673 and pack animals and we received none by river, although they might have transported a few supplies across the river in a small boat. Our party had a small sectional metal boat like duck hunters use, which can be taken apart and the sections folded. I got into this boat myself but did not see it operated. On my previous trips they did not have this sectional boat. 2674 In 1926 I was on the Colorado river between Moab and |