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Show ( 4 9 P ( 1,1n 11n ) the country west of Bluff , Utah , there ( is'lob islob ) Of loose sand which is blown first one way tliQn , pother , filling up the small side gulches ; not ( th0 Up ) , ( Seep 4eep ) canyons but the little side gulches that rune into the San Juan River . He has seen them filled practically level with sand from sand storms and then the heavy rain cuts the sand and silt out and it dumps it in the river . This filling and ( washing- washing ) out has been going on ever since he has been ( famil- famil ) ( iar lar ) with the country . ( R . 1699-1700 . ) It sometimes gets cold enough so that ice ( will will' will ) form on the San Juan River ten or twelve inches . ( tihick thick ) , where there is enough water to freeze it that deep ; some years it will freeze a foot thick or ten inches and other years it will just run mush ice . , , Ice ten or twelve inches thick is unusual , as the , usual occurrence is mush ice . He has also seen ice gorges between the ( mou-tli moutli mouth ) . of Lime ( Creek Creek- Creek ) and Goodrich where it would ( back bad1c ) : the water up fifteen or twenty feet high , and ( throw throw- throw ) slabs of ice clear out on the ( banks baliks ) on either side . . ( R . 1700 . ) He has seen the ( San -San San ) Juan River once when it was . completely dry , this being between 1900 and 1902 . ( R . 1701 . ) ( Gross-examination Grossexamination Cross-examination Crossexamination ) ( R . Vol . 9 , pp . 1701- 1702 ) : It was in August , as he remembers , when he saw the San Juan River completely dry for possibly a couple of days . ( R . 1701 . ) |