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Show Of I where they organized a colonization ( pai'ty paity W"AY WAY ) . ( R . 362-364 . ) In October , 1879 , the party ( consisting cousistiug ) of two ( hundred-odd hundredodd ) persons left Cedar City with ( eighty- eighty ) two wagons and traveled easterly , crossing the ( Col- Col ) orado River at the ( Hole-in-the-Rock HoleintheRock Hole-iu-the-Rock HoleiutheRock ) they . ( pro -pro pro ) ; - ceeded to the present site of Bluff , making a good road all the way and established the town . ( R . 364 . ) He has traveled overland up the San Juan River ( froin' froin ) ( 7Bluff Bluff ) a distance of one hundred miles and , down the river as far as its ( confluence confluenee ) ( with witb ) the Colorado . ( R . 366 . ) Never saw Indians use boats except for the ( pur- pur ) pose of crossing the ( river rive-1- rive1 ) and never used boats on the river for travel himself . ( R . 365 . ) When this party of ( Emigrants EnAgrants ) reached Bluff the river was confined in apparently a ( permanent perinanent ) ( elian- elian ) nel with cane , ( willows N'illows Nillows ) , and cottonwood trees ; since then it ( has bas ) been tore out , all to pieces . ( R . 366 . ) They laid out farms and irrigation projects ( that tlicat ) would be on asniall scale nowadays , but ( he lie ) believes ( roughly i-ougbly iougbly ) they consisted of ( about tabout ) seven hundred acres and dug a gravity ditch ( from froni ) the river . Part of the gravity ditch is still there , but the ( original origiiial ) farmlands are not , as a great deal has been tore out , - washed away by the river . This has been going on year after year , ( tearing teariug ) and cutting out a little more each year . ( R . 367 . ) |