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Show 247 6434 4425 Woods- C came up close to the edge of the town, a trader we had there came up to his trading post; that was quite a bit later; that possibility could have been the 1911 flood. But I couldn't fix any date as to the date of those. Q During the months of August and September of each year don't you have thunder showers down there which cause considerable rise in the river, and don't they come every year? A Well, the thunder showers that comes through our section of country along the river don't affect the river very much; the river runs up into Colorado, and it takes those heavy fall rains, what we call our September rains, that drains the entire country, that raises the river. Q but you don't see very much of a rise at Bluff on any of those floods? showers, you don't Q I am referring to the rains in the month of Sep-tember. A Yes, that is when the river does rise, is from our September rains, where the rain is general over the higher country. Q And that is a situation which you get every year? |