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Show 05-75 twenty or ( twenty-five twentyfive ) miles below Bluff , ( somewhere someNi1exe ) between Bluff and where the canyon boxes up . He feels sure lie got there in the afternoon . He ( didn't didnt ) make any investigation of any kind but believes the engineers checked it over . He was the cook and guide for the party , and they went down in December and out in January . ( R . 19372 1938 . ) It was early in JanuaiLT when they stayed over night on the San Juan River , but he ( doesn't doesnt ) ( re- re ) member ( -whether whether ) there was snow or ice on the ground . He does recall that there was plenty of snow on the way home . With respect to the San Juan River he recalls that there was open water in the stream , ( which -which which ) he judged to be about a foot deep . . ( R . . 1939 . ) If the water extended out under the ice , he ( wouldn't wouldnt ) know how far . ( He Ile ) knows he forded the river going over at Dandy Crossing . He believes one of the men rode a horse , and led the rest . He ( doesn't doesnt ) recall whether he rode a horse , or went by boat . . ( R . . 19392 , 1940 . ) ( Didn't Didnt ) walk across . ( R . 1940 . ) He recalls that he went on an expedition down the Colorado , for about fifteen miles , in a small boat , using oars ; , and he believes he was gone about four days . ( R . . 1941 . . ) While down the river on that trip he did some prospecting , but did not stake out claims R ) any . . ( . . 19412 1942 . . ( Prob- Prob ) ably rowed up river some , , and towed . . ( R . . 1942 . . ) He remembers that on the San Juan Expedition in 18892 Mr . Nims was along . . He also remembers that this expedition picked up the [ survey ] line |