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Show 191 is over to one side one day and over somewhere else the next day; it is quicksandy formation; when the water hits the quicksand it melts it; when the water is real high, it tears right in and washes out a whole bottom; practically all the land that was there when we first went there has been changed and washed out, and new sediment formed in the place of it. He helped in the attempt to control the river by building rip- rap dykes along the bank and filling the same with rock. " Q. Did you get any effect from those improvements, as far as confining the river was concerned? " A. Yes sir. " Q. What was the effect? " A. We would rip- rap the banks; that is the only bottom on the San Juan River as I know of, where Bluff is located now, that has not been moved with the high water and the quicksand; we used to rip- rap there and change the river and put it over on the other side to hold our farming land from washing away. " Q. What about quicksand further down the river? " A. After you get down below Bluff three or four miles, the country has been washed away; the place we call Sand Island flats, a mile or two wide, that has all been washed out. After you get below there the country boxes in; there isn't much bottom land from there on down until you get way down, about seventy- five miles, only just little bottoms here and there; it boxes in; there isn't very big bottoms; the canyon boxes in there. R. 448. At one time they put in a dam across the river and turned it into another course altogether. This was about a mile above Bluff. R. 448. |
