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Show Ferry at Comb ( "Wash Wash 'Wash Wash ) 489 , boat 30 ft . long , 12 ft . ( wide mide ) , flat bottom , ran on cable . Other ferry boats , ( ordinary -ordinary ordinary ) skiffs from 12 to 14 or 16 ft . ( longj longi ) . 5 or , 6 ft . wide , flat bottom , pointed at one end . ( R . 1691-1692 . ) Old Mormon Trail from Bluff to ( Hole-in-the- Holeinthe ) Rock ; One up San Juan River from Bluff to ten miles above McElmo Wash ; turned to Mancos and Durango , Colorado ; Another up Recapture ( "Wash Wash Wash ) , 5 miles above Bluff through Monticello , on over to ( Moab A104b ) ; ran east of Blanding . ( R . 1692-1693 . ) Placer operations were in canyon between Comb Wash and Mexican Hat and down below Mexican Hat ; does not think there was over 25 men at any one time . ( R . 1694 . ) 1895 , foreman for placer mining company ; equipment brought in by wagon from Bluff to ( Moonlight "Moonlight Moonlight ) Canyon ( ; - ) forded river at Comb Wash . ( R . 1695 . ) Machinery for oil refinery ( at fit ) ( Good Good- Good ) rich , brought in from Arizona by team . ( R . ( 1696-1697 16964697 ) . ) In 1895 no settlers west of Bluff . Country rough and rugged sandstone , desert . Country west of Bluff poor agricultural country ; little patches might be ( dry-farmed dryfarmed ) near Elk mesas . No ranchers ( west -west west ) of Bluff ; one old fellow head of ( Comb Conib ) Wash . Indians did not own boats or boat . ( R . 1698 . ) From Durango , Colorado , to store at mouth of Comb Wash , 150 miles , and it took about 15 days to make round trip . |
