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Show He has had ( parties pal-ties palties ) along 1141 ( the t-lic tlic ) ( rim rijil ) of the ( San Soan ) Juan in various years . ( R . 4541 . ) When lie has been able to cross the river with horses the water would come a little more ( than tbaii ) belly deep . ( R . ( 4541-4542 4541-4,542 ) . ) _ , He has ( attempted 4-Littempted 4Littempted ) to cross with horses when the water was not low , to his ( sorrow soi-row soirow ) ( and alid ) his horse had to ( swim swini ) . He ( be- be ) , lieves that ( he lie ) has crossed the ( San Sail ) Juan River in every month of the year . ( The 'Phe Phe ) parties ( he lie ) takes ( in iii ) ( are -ire ire ) ( taken tal-zen talzen ) in in the ( summer stuniner ) . He opens his ( busi btisi- btisi ) ness the fifteenth of May , and it continues to the first or middle of November ; August , September , ( and clilid ) October being his big ( months montlis ) . ( R . 4542-4543 . ) He ( has lit-is litis ) seen the San ( Juan Juail ) River when there . ( wasn't wasnt ) any water in A2 ( but biit ) aside from this one time he ( doesn't doesnt ) believe he has ever seen it narrower than one hundred and fifty or two hundred feet , and where it was that narrow it would be confined by the canyon walls . He has crossed the Colorado River a good ( manj'- manj inany ) times in boats ( , I ) having crossed at Hite ( , I ) ( Hole-in-the- Holeinthe ) Rock ( , 7 ) and at ( Moab Afoab ) . There are ( 110 no ) regular ferries anywhere on the Colorado River that he knows of IrIOW7 but there used to be ferries at Hite . ( R . 4543- 4544 . ) In his opinion , the use of the ( San Sail ) Juan River would be for boats that carried two or three tons of supplies , or possibly more , flat bottomed boats , like the one shown in ( Defendant's Defendants ) Exhibit No . 16 . ( R . 4545-4546 . ) |