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Show Record summer at Bluff. The water would be entirely gone, standing in pools that run very short distances, but no water running all the way through, but would extend down toward the Colorado River as far 371 as you could see. There are no large streams going into the San Juan from Bluff down to the Colorado, except in the spring and during stormy weather. There is a good deal of flat rock on the Mesas in places, and when the heavy rains come it does not take long for the water 372 to gather out of those into the river and make a raging torrent. That sometimes causes a scouring against the irrigated farms. To protect these farms we built rift rafts, log cabins and loaded them with rock, drove pile and a good deal of work in that way. Our 373 success was not very good. The floods would tear them out. My business during all the time I have been in that country has been running cattle until last fall. I have been over most of that country from Bluff North to the Colorado River and I have run cattle in that country. There are not many inhabitants in there. The country in and around Bluff on both sides of the river is very rough and broken, but there is good grazing on the benches when we have good seasons. It is a good cattle or sheep country. It would 374 take four or five acres to a cow, I would judge. On the West side of the San Juan River there was located the Town of Mexican Hat. Not more than fifty people live there at its boat. There are only two or three outfits there now. Between the San Juan River and the Colorado River, except in and about Moab, there are only cow camps, I think. The cow camps are there all the 375 year round. They move from the low country in the summer to the mountains and then back on the Mesas. A good deal of drift wood comes down the San Juan River during the floods. There is a good deal of sand carried also. I have seen sand waves four or five feet high on the river. There are some rapids on the San Juan between Bluff and the Colorado Kumen Jones testified on cross- examination as follows: |