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Show 4302 Loper- D 2323 from Moab to Bluff, carried a level from Moab to Bluff, then carried that level from Moab to Lees Ferry, as far as the survey went. Q What boat equipment did that party have? A Just three open boats. Q What size and draft? A Three open boats, flat bottom, flared sides, sixteen inches deep and about four foot beam. Q What was your connection with that party? A Boatman. Q How long did you stay with that party? A I signed up, I think, on the 29th of June, or about then, and continued on until in December. Q Did you see any changes in the San Juan river which occurred between your trip in there in 1895 and 1921? A I told you about where the river bed at Indian Farms was, three or four hundred feet wide. In 1921 the Indian Farms was completely gone, and Mr. Trimble measured the river, and it was thirty- three hundred feet wide at that point, and when we went down in the 1921 trip to the Indian Farms, just a trickling stream through the sand, so many sand bars and things, you know, three or four streams to the river; it was real low. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q You mean the river had spread out? What was the |