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Show Record river to water my horses, and there was no real running water in 3222 the bed. I went down perhaps a mile. I remained around Barrett Station only that day and came back up to Comb Wash that evening and then back to Hite with my pack outfit, where I got a boat and went down to the mouth of the San Juan River and thence up 3223 the San Juan River about twelve miles. Another man accompanied me on this trip. I do not recall any incident out of the ordinary as occurring on this trip. When I got to the mouth of the San Juan River I found it was unusually low, very low, and we started to row up, but only rowed a little ways and got out. It was not very cold and we towed and pushed the boat upstream. There was considerable current and too much sand and too many bars to row in such low water. We got up there, had our supper and drifted back downstream that night. We had no trouble going downstream. Where we had gone upstream we had started the sand and got a channel and we went right back down the channel that we 3224 had made on our way up. We made this trip up and down the San Juan River about October 15, just a few days after I had been at Bluff. The place I mentioned where I found no water in the San Juan River was east of the box canyon and between there and Barrett Station. Barrett Station is at the mouth of Comb Wash. 3225 I have had very little experience in boating on the Green River. On one occasion, I can't recall the year, I went down the Green River with Captain Yokey from the town of Green River. They had a boat called the Cliff Dweller, and one Sunday afternoon they ran an excursion and we went down a ways and ran aground just below town. I didn't stay on the boat and walked back up. Frank Bennett testified on cross examination as follows: 3226 On the occasion when I made the ten mile boat trip up the San Juan River from its mouth, we came back down the same evening. We came down pretty fast and has no trouble coming down. It was Colonel Dan Hite, a brother of Cass Hite, who |