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Show 304 Below the San Juan the river is quieter than above but there is considerably more sand brought into the San Juan and their progress from that point was marked with groundings frequently. R. 796. They made the run to the mouth of the San Juan in possibly three and one- half days, be believes. The Hole- in- the- Rock is above the San Juan and the Crossing of the Fathers is below. R. 797. That section of Glen Canyon had canyon walls set back from the river and the canyon was possibly one thousand feet wide and there were bottoms on either one side or the other. There were bottoms four hundred feet wide that had dense growth of willows and vegetation; very few cotton woods, and there were more cottonwoods in the upper section. Glen Canyon ends at Lees Ferry. R. 798. " Q. Same trouble with the sandbars and so forth? " A. Same character of water through all that section. The lower end is quieter than the upper section." R. 798- 799. Hite, Utah, is a short distance below the mouth of the Dirty Devil, just a few miles, and they saw three men in that section. There were three separate cabins within a few miles of each other. Two were on the right side of the river. One was John Hite and his brother Kass. On the other side Bert Loper had his ranch. Bert Loper was working with a boat. He was placer working and had his little cabin and a few head of stock. He wasn't at home. They stopped with John Hite that night. He had a Post Office there and the next morning Loper hailed us from the shore, possibly a little below his home. |