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Show , ( TStamcturos structures ) ( extond extand ) down ( 132 182 ) as far as ( Sliokliorn Sliddlorn ) ( Qan- Qan Oan- Oan ) yon . It would be about twenty miles from the ( con- con ) fluence . ( R . 481 . ) Slickhorn is a steep canyon and there have been a number of oil locations made along there and a well was drilled there about twenty years ago . The structures extend all along the river bed : ; ( substaiitially Substantially ) to the confluence of the Colorado and , ; also south and north of the San Juan country . ( R . 482 . ) ( Redirect Bedirect ) ( examination exam-biation exambiation ) ( R . Vol . 3 , pp . 483- 487 ) : Trouble in running the water wheel was had at different seasons of the year due to low water . He . remembers seeing the San Juan River dry but does not recall the exact year . He remembers the time the river was dry and the day before a big flood came . He had ridden horseback up the channel of the river six or seven miles from Bluff and another person , a ( brother-in-law brotherinlaw ) of Mr . Zahn , had ridden up the river from ( Zahn's Zahns ) camp , a point about ( seventy-five seventyfive ) miles below . ( R . 483-484 . ) The next day a flood came down the river , ( wash wash- wash ) ing away the water wheel at the placer mine . In 1911 he was located at Mexican Hat , back about fifty feet from the river , and his house was washed away by another flood . It was a substantial rock house and cost about ( 7,000.00 7,000-00 ) . The water ( abso- abso ) lutely obliterated the building . ( R . 485 . ) No heavy machinery was taken down the river in boats because of the fact that boats ( wouldn't wouldnt ) float . |
