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Show 246 He has had a great deal of trouble with quicksand on the San Juan. " Q. Tell me about that. " A. You can take the bars after the water has receded and left the bars two feet above the present level of the water; very often our stock would get bogged down in quicksand on these upper bars in approaching the river to get a drink, and they would sink down sometimes until just their backs would stick out." R. 626. " Q. Have you ever engaged in any enterprise to attempt to confine the San Juan River to a definite channel? " A. Yes, we have done that; that was our big trouble. " Q. At what point did you do that? " A. Did most of that at Bluff and at Rincon, at the trading post. " Q. You are referring to the trading post near Mexican Hat? " A. The mouth of Chinle Wash; we had trouble in all the places. One instance there, there was a sand ledge, sand shale, time shale protruding over the river about twelve or fourteen feet high; the river came and hit it solid; we went to work and built a pier on the top of the ledge, cottonwood log pier, notched up log pen style, about twelve feet high, and filled that with rook; then over that we put a big, heavy cottonwood, extended it over the river channel beyond the edge of this cliff; built a water wheel to the wheel would hang in the river current at the fact of this cliff. We got it to going; started to raise a little garden with it; and went out one morning and the river was over one hundred yards the other |