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Show 4292 Loper- D 2313 Q Just tell me about the progress down the river. A You know August is quite a warm month; we had very little water, so it made no difference to us whether we was in the river or out of it. I know when we got to the Indian Farms we got out, we couldn't ride, because the river was so shallow, that we just had to drag the boat along. Q I wish you would tell me, please, the appearance of the river through the Indian Farms as you saw it in 1895. A I imagine the bed of the river was probably three hundred feet wide, and so very little water that there was no channel that would float a boat; there was places the three of us actually drug the boat. Q Through Indian Farms, did the river at that time appear to have substantial banks? A It was big bottoms; the bottoms had been put there by the river, I presume naturally so, and the bottoms had big cottonwood trees; that was what was called the Indian Farms. Q Along the banks of the river through the Indian Farms were there willows upon the banks? A There was no willows I remember -- there was very few willows in the San Juan, along the San Juan river, very few. Q What was the total mileage of this trip from Honaker trail down the river that you men took? A Well, probably sixty. |