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Show , - , . rf < * * * * * * * ujHit , . f trm 169 in ( tho the ) ( San Saii ) ( Juan Juall ) River , it was the last week in , ( Au- Au ) gust , and under that bridge there , where it is ( sixty- sixty ) four feet wide , they ( couldn't couldnt ) get water deep enough ( to -to to ) swim in . ( R . 617 . ) Sudden floods and cloudbursts occur in ( Septem Septem- Septem ) ¬ ( ber bor ) and other fall months and water rises from one ( inch iiiell ) to forty and fifty feet . These floods occur usually every year at that season . During these floods all of the loose ( sands sailds ) from the washes are dumped into the ( San Sall ) ( Juan Jiian ) River , and chokes the river entirely across . ( R . 618-620 . ) This occurs at ( Oottoiiwood Cottonwood ) , at ( Recapture Recal5ture ) , across between Montezuma and Bluff ( on oil ) the south side of the river ; in all of them , in fact . ( R . 620 . ) He does not know what effect this discharge of sand has on ( the Vhe ) river bed ; cobble rocks and stuff ( conies comes ) down in these ( discharges discliarges ) , and it will take the river some five or six days to clean it up and ( wasli wash ) it out ; gets around the end of this delta , keeps caving it ( in ill ) ; a lot of times there will be mud balls that roll down and cobble rocks . By mud balls he means this : Up in the clay washes there will be a clay bank cave off , a small one , the water ( in ill ) the flood will start to ( roll roll- roll ) ¬ ing that piece of clay , and it ( will idll ) pick up other pieces of clay , and get as big as the front wheel of a wagon . This will be composed of all kinds of ( sediment sediinent ) , cobble rocks , clay , sand , all rolled into a big mud ball ; that is all washed into the river and they stay longer than the loose sand does . But in time the river cleans that all off takes the rock and , clay balls , too , and gets back to its natural channel . |