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Show the water has receded and 171 left the bars two feet above the present level of the water ; very often their stock would get bogged down in quicksand on these upper bars in approaching the river to get a drink , and they would sink down sometimes until just their backs would stick out . ( R . 626 . ) He has been engaged in an enterprise to attempt to confine the ( San Sail ) Juan River to a definite ( channel cliaiuicl ) ; that was their big trouble . Did ( most inost ) of that at Bluff and at Rincon , at the trading post , at the mouth of Chinle Wash ; they had trouble in all the places . One instance there , there was a sand ledge , sand shale , lime shale protruding over the river about twelve or fourteen feet high ; the river came and hit it solid ; they went to work and built a pier on the top of the ledge , cottonwood log pier , notched up ( hog-pen hogpen ) style , about twelve feet high , and filled that with rock ; then over that they put a big , heavy cottonwood , extended it over the river channel ( be- be ) ( yond youd ) the edge of this cliff ; built a water wheel so the wheel would ( hang haug ) in the river current at the face of this cliff . They got it to going ; started to raise a little garden with it ; and ( went Nvelit ) out one : morning and the river was over one hundred yards the other side of it , a sand bar filled in up to eighteen inches deep on their lower paddles ; quit ( them thein ) entirely . That is ( common coinilion ) in that ( shifting sbifting ) sand . The river at that point got back ( where vvhere ) he had built this crib . They went to work then ; they |