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Abstract Testimony, V 1, p. 0156

the University of Colorado 156 in 1912 , and has ( fol- fol ) lowed his profession since that time . He was in the San Juan River country in Utah in 1923 , ( surveying surveyhig ) prospecting permits for the ( Midwest Alidwest ) Oil Refining Company from the middle of ( March Alarch ) until about the first of September . Worked from Shiprock down to below Clay Hill , which is a little below the mouth of Moonlight Creek . Surveyed a strip of country between those points about ten miles on each side on the San Juan River . There were . four or five men in the survey party . ( R . 580- 581 . ) From Shiprock to Mexican Hat an ( automobile automobile- automobile ) was used as a means of transportation , while from Mexican Hat west saddle horses ( were -were were ) used . The . party never used a boat on the river , even for ( cross cross- cross ) ing . The river was forded either on horseback or , afoot when it was necessary to run the survey line . back and forth across the river . The river was forded below Bluff at about the mouth of Chinle Creek , above Bluff , and somewhere near the mouth of Moonlight Creek . For about a week 6r ten days the river was crossed back and forth every day at the mouth of Chinle Creek on horseback , as ( the the- the ) water was from one to two feet deep ; no trouble was . encountered with quicksand in crossing . Quicksand occurs at various places in the river , . and crossings were made in the riffles or on the gravel bars . They would pick out these places on foot mostly before they took the horses in .