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Show Record wash that comes into the San Juan River above Farmington, New Mexico. 601 After we had been there a while we went to Animus City for our sup-plies. The supplies were hauled in by ox teams. There were no 602 bridges in those days. We forded all streams. The roads we had in those days it took us 2 weeks to go from Montezuma to Animus City or Durango with horses and mules. There is no town at Montezuma now. We got freight from Thompson Springs years afterwards. Long before we got freight from there we drove our livestock from our country down through Moab and sold them at Green River, Utah. At Moab we just went into the Green River and crossed it. Sometimes we had to lay over until the water went down and sometimes we 603 could ford it easily. At low water at Moab the water would touch the belly of a horse or mule. At high water they had to do some swimming. Daily mail crossed over there. Our settlement at Montezuma was prior to the settlement of Moab. Green River, Utah, 604 was established when I first went there. I know of an instant or two where people came down the San Juan River in boats with a little bacon and a bed, just as 605 light as they possibly could. Never at any time was there any freighting on the river at the three places where I settled. We paid to have our goods hauled from Durango and later from Thompson Springs. We investigated bringing supplies down the river but we never did it. I have seen a few ferry boats on the river and now and then somebody would make a boat. We lost of boats there in high water. Very often we made 3 or 4 during the season to ferry 606 Indians across. They were little flat bottom boats, 12 feet long. These are the only kind of boat I ever saw on the river. When the placer miners were in there some of them built boats and went down the river to the bars. I have twice taken a boat down the river from Montezuma to Bluff and from Bluff to Rincon, the mouth of Chinle Creek. I was a kid the first time. Took the trip with 607 another man. I never brought any boats up the river. I was familiar with the placer mines down there and I |