OCR Text |
Show bottom skiff , pointed at one 477 end , square at the other , about twelve feet long and three feet wide . One man was in the boat with a roll of bedding and a little camp outfit . He took it for granted ( lie he ) had some food as the man was a prospector . ( ( E R ) . 1640 . ) The second time he saw a man going down the river , the boat was a little larger . He believes fourteen feet long and four and ( one-half onehalf ) feet or five feet ( wide vide ) . He saw nothing in this boat from where he stood , as he was about one ( hundred-fifty hundredfifty ) feet away . The boat ( wasn't wasnt ) going down the river ; it was stuck on a sand bar about fifteen miles above Bluff . ( R . 1641-1642 . ) He saw the first of these two men about 1898 , and the second in about 1909 . ( R . 1642 . ) At this time , the road down the San Juan from New Mexico to ( Bluff Br6ff ) was in existence . This road came down ( Mancos Kancos ) , Colorado , on down to Bluff right along by the San Juan River . Afterwards this road was washed out . ( R . 1643 . ) The road from Bluff down toward the Colorado River was also in existence at that time but it was , impassable except for stock . He went over the end > . of it that carried him south of Comb Wash to the mouth of Chinle Creek , but he had to build it up to get through . At that time there was no road to Goodrich and the road that crossed from the north , to the south side of the river crossed at Chinle Creek . ( R . 1644 . ) This was in the years of 1898 and 1909 . |