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Show 101 In the late suininer , fall , and winter , , the waterin the river becomes very low except during glliort periods of heavy rain and cloudbursts . . He ( recalls rectills ) one tiine when the river was entirely dry . . The only time he has ever seen the river dry ( was W11.5 W115 ) in the late suinmer , right at Bluff . Water was ( ell- ell ) tirely gone . No running water at all ; stands in pools that run very short distances , but no running water all the way through . That would extend down towards the Colorado River , as far as he could see . ( R . 370-371 . At times the San Juan River ( freezes fi-eezes fieezes ) over solid . ( R . 370 . ) There are no large streams come to the ( San S"an San ) Juan River ( below beloii- beloii ) Bluff except in rainy times . He means from Bluff to its junction with , the Colorado River . The streams ( coining coming ) in are dry washes ( except ex-cept except ) in the spring and during stormy weather . ( R . 371 . ) There is a good ( deal dec-il decil ) of flat rock on the mesas iii places . ( The 'Plie Plie ) water gathers quickly from these places into the River and ( "become become "beeolne beeolne ) a raging ( tor- tor ) rent . " OR . . 372 . ) This sometimes causes ( scour- scour ) ing against the irrigated farms . To protect the ( farms farnis ) from the ( River PU-Nler PUNler ) they built ( rip-rap riprap ) , log cribs , and ( would wonld ) load ( them tbeni ) with brush and rock and drive piles , but they ( didn't didnt ) have very ( good crood ) successas the floods would tear them out , ( undermine i-Ludermine iLudermine ) them , and cret around them , ( ahead aliecad ) or below them . ( R . 372 . . ) He believes lie has been principally running cattle ever since lie first went into the country and |