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Show Record no pole or anything of that kind. After recess the direct examination of Otto J. Zahn continued and he testified: 2049 There was an occasion when in our pumping operations I diverted the entire San Juan River. The water was so slow that I had to take a shovel and ditch it over, making a ditch probably 2050 one hundred and fifty feet long. I thus diverted all of the San Juan River to our pumps and this condition continued for about ten days. As I recall this was in 1904. I had a boat down at camp was impracticable most of the time, because I could easier 2051 wade or swim across." It depended on the flow of water. When I was back there in 1905 it was in the month of April; I stayed around there until the water got pretty high. I couldn't get a freight wagon to bring the hopper down. My stay there at that 2052 time was about four or five months. There were some natural roads along there in a few places. There was no road but a trail opposite Nokai Canyon, which trail goes up the Clay Hill Divide 2053 toward the Colorado River. While I was on the river there were no other people operating where we were, but I don't remember whether other people were operating placer mines in the San Juan Canyon. I have been back to the San Juan River quite a number of times since 1905, at all seasons of the year. On these occasions I have seen other placer mines in operation of the river near our place. So far as I know the people operating those placer mines did not use boats to bring in their supplies, and our supplies 2054 have always been brought in overland. We only operated our mine in 1904 and 1905, but I was in there later, trying to rescue some of our machinery that had been taken out by high water and wrecked 2055 and buried. We had one large rock and mud house, and attached to that was a large tool house. These were located six or seven feet 267 1385 |