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Show ( Ho Re ) would take ( Ms Ids ) pack ae ( and alid ) saddle , ( steak stoelc ) with ( tllo- tllo We- We ) party that ( he be ) would have down to the river , ( where- where ) ( lie 'be be ) could get a boat , ( swim swini ) the stock , cross the rivdif and go on the other side . JR . 1606 . ) The places he usually crossed were at Lees Foir . the mouth of Red Canyon and Hite . Hite is also known as Dandy Crossing , the actuaf . crossing being about eight miles above , or five miles . above where White Canyon comes in , and is wliere the old Dandy Ferry used to be . This ferry was there from 1879 to 1881 or 1882 , ( and aiid ) was first used . by an outlaw band ( that tbat ) was in there , and then he believes the Mormons used it in crossing into ( Bluff Bluff' Bluff ) in 1880 . He never used this Ferry himself . ( R . - ( 1607 1-607 ) . ) ( "When When When ) he crossed at ( I-Iite IIite Hite ) ( he lie ) used a boat that might be owned by different people who would ( be- be be ) in there at the time , sometimes one person and sometimes another . He recalls a boat owner by ( the the- the ) * name of Humphreys , and another , John Hite . ( "Whoever Whoever AAThoever ) happened to be there would own a ( boat boat- boat ) and they crossed in it . ( R . 1608 . ) He never spent very much time in and ( around -around around ) Hite and never received any mail at the Hite Post . Office . ( R . 1608 . ) He has observed the sand in the San Juan River and knows that it shifts a great deal . He has crossed it when the water would be four feet ( deep- deep ) on one side and the channel would be all ( on o1i ) ( one- one ) side ; coming back in three or four days , it would : ( 330"07-31-VOL 3300731VOL ) . 1-30 |
