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Show From his knowledge of 1370 the river , it would not have been any more difficult to raft this timber down at the lowest stage ( he lie ) ever saw the river than it was when ( he lie ) rafted , but you would have to build the raft lighter , bigger ; that would be all the difference there would be . ( R . 5317 . ) He was on the river in 1902 , but ( he lie ) did not do any work . ( R . 5317 . ) During the time he was working there be made frequent trips up and down the river for distances of from ten to twenty miles either way from camp , some trips being as far up as Dandy Crossing , ( thirty- thirty ) five miles from the Moquie bar , or thirty miles from the Olympia . Part of the time he was working for himself and part of the time he was employed by Stanton for the Hoskinnini Mining Company , the Moquie Mining Company , and for L . M . Chaffin and associates . In 1899 and 1900 he was a partner of L . M . Chaffin at the Moquie Bar . ( R . 5317-5319 . ) The lowest point on the river that he has traveled to below Dandy Crossing , was about four or five miles below the reef , across the Colorado River . The reef that makes a circle , starts in up towards Blake , comes around and down below the Shock Bar ; he ( can't cant ) tell the exact ( distance-something distancesomething ) like seven or eight miles . That is below Lake Canyon . Down the river about twelve miles , fifteen miles . The reef is not as far down as the San Juan River . He has never been down to the mouth of the San Juan . |