No. 14 Original, Abstract of the Testimony, vol. 1, pp. 1-748

Abstract Testimony, V 1, p. 0122

12 9 ( has Ibas ) crossed ( tlie the ) river at the same points with freight wagons . ( R . 445-446 . ) The average water ( at -it it ) the fords was two to three feet deep ; ( sometimes sometinies ) lower , sometimes higher . The lowest he has ever seen the water is about a foot deep . The river is variable as to depth . Conditions ( changed chaiiged ) since 1880 ( , ) ) in this respect . There were big flats and ( bot- bot ) toms all along the river , and it has changed ; those bottoms are all washed away . The river is over to one side one day and over somewhere else the next day ; it is ( quicksandy quieksandy ) formation ; when the ( Avater water ) hits the ( quicksand quichsand ) it melts it ; when the water is real high , it tears right in and washes out a whole bottom ; practically all the land that was there when they first went there has ( been beeii ) changed and washed out , and new sediment ( formed forined ) in the place of it . He helped in the attempt to control the river by building riprap dikes ( along aloug ) the bank and filling the same with rock . We would riprap the ( banks bank-s banks ) ; that is the only bottom ( 011 on ) the San Juan River as he knows of , where Bluff is located now , that has ( not liot ) been moved ( with Avith ) the high water and the ( quicksand quichsand ) ; they used to riprap there and change the river and put it over on the other side to hold their ( farming faTming ) land from washing away . After you get down ( below belo- belo ) ( BlufE Bluff ) three or four miles , ( the tJie ) country . ( has bas ) ( been beeii ) washed away ; the place they call Sand Island flats , a mile or two wide , that ( lias h1as ) ( all C-111 C111 ) been washed out .