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Show 671 river it leaves a mass of rock that has to be washed away creating almost an impassable barrier at times. There are rapids at the mouth of Piute Canyon. R. 1611. In 1915, as he recalls, he saw a man named Turner on the Colorado River with a twenty- four foot motor boat, equipped also with a said to help him back up the river. R. 1611. Turner had some placer claims at the mouth of Red Canyon and he saw him operate the boat down the river. He had a sail on it, but wasn't using it when he went down the river. He was never in the boat himself. The other boats he saw were just small skiffs and were used, as most of the boats on the river were used. simply to cross back and forth at high water. R. 1612. The traders along the river have boats that hey use to carry the Indians' wool across the river. He has had considerable experience with the Navajo Indians, has lived with them, has been on the revervation for the past thirty years, but does not know of any of the Navajo Indians having owned or used boats except to cross the river with their wool in boats owned by the traders. R. 1613. He is familiar with the roads and trails in that particular part of San Juan Country that lie west of a line drawn north and south through Bluff, Utah, and has been in the locality recently. R. 1614. He is also familiar with a road that goes from |
