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Show Record the canyons. On the sides the bluffs are high. You will find rocks along the river but not in the middle of the stream. As far as I know the sand does not amount to anything in there. At Mexican Hat you find sand for a stretch of a few miles 426 in the river bed. It is moving in the bed of the river. I have driven cattle across the San Juan River at the mouth of Comb Wash, 10 or 15 miles below Bluff and just above Chinle Creek. I have not driven cattle across the river at any other point. There has been a change in the San Juan River since I first saw it. When we landed at Bluff it was kind of in a narrow channel, and now it is cut out so I guess it is one half a mile across it. The river has cut in and left the sand, and the channel is here and there. It shifts from one place to another. The river does not always occupy the entire one half mile. I could not say the narrow- 427 est the river gets at different seasons of the year. I have seen the river entirely dry on two different occasions. I have seen the river at one point where you could see the rocks clear across it. The second time I saw it at this particular point I do not think the water was over 10 inches deep. I have seen it when it was shallow upon other occasions. I would not say how many. There are no streams below Bluff that flow into the San 428 Juan River all year. When I first went into Bluff the settlers got their supplies from Durango, Colorado. There was nothing that was sent out from that country. We did not send out our wool. We drove our cattle out to Durango mostly. Personally I never got any supplies by way of the river. I never knew of the Indians using the river for trading or traveling except to ferry across. I have had some contact with the Navajo Indians. I ran a trading post at Comb Wash, 429 10 or 12 miles below Bluff at one time. John Adams testified on cross examination as follows: I do not know of any markets that are located on the San Juan River either above or below Bluff. If we have a product to - 57- |