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Show One winter for about six weeks 37 I trapped for beaver above and below the mouth of Moonlight on the San Juan and waded ( along1 along ) the river to set out my traps . During that winter you could wade the stream most anywhere . On one occasion , about 1900 or 1901 , the San Juan was dry up at Farmington , New Mexico , where I lived . ( R . 1653-4 , Vol . 9 . ) Louisa Wade ( Wetherill Wetheiill ) testified : I live at Kayenta , Arizona . I have never seen boats on the San Juan except those we crossed in . ( R . 1663 , Vol . 9 . ) The year the river was dry children crossed at a point about 6 miles above Farmington . The dry year was 1902 . ( I 1 ) have never seen it dry on any other occasion but have seen it real low , so that above Farmington , New Mexico , and below Shiprock , New Mexico , it would be only maybe 3 feet wide and 6 inches deep at different places where we would cross . ( R . 1664-7 , Vol . 9 . ) The time when I ( saw saw- saw ) the San Juan when it was only 3 feet wide was at Bloomfield , New Mexico , and it was not the same year as that during which the river went entirely dry ; I think it was the next year . ( R . 1669 , Vol . 9 . ) Those two dry years were 1902 and 1903 , and the place where I saw the river was above Farmington ; below Farmington the Animas , which is the largest tributary of the San Juan , also the La Platta and Mancos Rivers flow into the San Juan . ( R . 1672 , Vol . 9 . ) Clinton Neal Cotton testified : I live at Gallup , New Mexico ; am not very familiar with the San Juan River and have no personal ( knowledge Imowledge ) of any boats being used on that river . ( R . 1674-7 , Vol . 9 . ) Ernest B . Hyde testified : I went into the San Juan country in 1880 , when I was 14 years old . ( R . 1678 , Vol . 9 . ) Later my father opened a trading post 2 miles above the mouth of Montezuma Wash and still later at the mouth of Comb Wash . I helped in the store and we ran some sheep and cattle in that country , which I looked after a good deal of the time . ( R . 1681 , Vol . 9 . ) ( I 1 ) moved away in 1911 but have been back several times since . I know of no ( sup- sup ) plies received by boat on the San ( Juan Xuan ) . ( R . 1682-3 , Vol . 9 . ) 1 have seen sand waves at different places on the river . ( R . 1686 , Vol . 9 . ) 1 have observed the San Juan River during low water at the mouth of Moonlight Canyon and ( Zahn's Zahns ) Camp . I would say that in low water the normal |