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Show Record That was in 1890, I think. We forded the river when the water was low, pretty near swam our horses sometimes, and sometimes it only came up to their knees. We did not make these crossings in the summer time. It was cold weather, in the fall of the year. When cold weather came we could almost wade it, cross without getting into the water, but in the summer time the water flowed pretty good. I was with that party about 6 weeks. We crossed the river twice during that six weeks. We came back near the mouth of Comb 546 Wash. The river boxes right after that. I crossed at Clay Hill and crossed it coming back at the mouth of Comb Wash. I have been down on the river on other occasions between Bluff City and the Colorado River. I have been through there several times. I went to help immigrants coming into the country that got stalled in the middle of the desert. We would go out and help them in. They got stalled this side of Hole- In- The- Rock. That is on the other side of the Colorado River where they enter from the Escalante Desert. We went from Bluff City to get the people, teems, and 547 wagons into Bluff City. Hole- In- The- Rock is a big gulch that comes from a bluff about 2000 feet high, with a crack in the rock at its head. We went to Salt Lake City and got the Legislature to appropriate money enough to buy powder to shoot our way through. That place, Hole- In- The- Rock, is about 7 miles above the mouth of the San Juan River. We sent and got a ferry boat to cross the Colorado River, and got carpenters to come down from Escalante to help make a boat. They brought tools and made a row of ferry boats to row our wagons and stop over on the other side of the Colorado River. We made the boats right there on the ground, on the North side of 548 the river. The lumber came from some little saw mills in the canyons North and East of the Town of Escalante. The lumber was 550 hauled by horse teams from there to Hole- In- The- Rock. We went out several times to rescue parties that were on their way to Bluff City. We turned them loose in Bluff. Some of them filed up and down the river. To relieve them of their distress, we went mostly to Hole- In- The- Rock. Our ferry boat was still |