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Show He ( doesn't doesnt doesnt ) know of 136 the Indians ever ( having1 having ) used the San Juan River for trade or travel . He has not used the river for trade or travel himself and does not know of any navigation whatever on . it . He ( doesn't doesnt ) maintain a ferry himself in ( con con- con ) nection with his trading post . He saw a boat on the river last winter [ 1928 ] and a boat when he % ms a boy about eight years old , ( forty-five fortyfive ) years ago . He has never used the river for shipping supplies in or out from his trading post at Goodrich . Most of his supplies are brought in from Bluff , Utah , by wagon , also from ( Oortez Cortez ) and Gallup , New Mexico , and Durango , Colorado . He has never been on the river in a ( boat-Just boatJust ) crossed back and forth . ( ( E R ) . 497 . ) The sand bars in the river are continually ( chang chaaig- chaaig ) ¬ ing from place to place , shifting all the time . ( Jewett J-ewett Jewett ) , New Mexico , is the place where he boated across the river . He has crossed the river afoot , on horseback , in wagon , and every other ( way Nray ) except in a car . He ( doesn't doesnt ) know how many different places he has crossed it but has crossed it all the way from ( Bloom- Bloom ) field down to Mexican Hat . ( R . 498 . ) He has crossed the river on foot between Bluff ( anAMDexi- anAMDexi ) can Hat ; right at ( Mexican Alexican ) Hat , and right at the store . ( R 499 . ) The highest water in his memory , was on the 29th of September , 1927 , when the water was ( thirty- thirty ) |