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Show 3611 Wetherill- C 1633 A That is all. Q And your other trips later than 1906 were on such business and of such character that you did not go up and down the river itself, but merely might across it to go over and them cross it going back at a ford? MR. BLACKMAR: You mean going up and down it in a boat? MR. FARNSWORTH: I mean just what I say in my question. Perfectly plain. A There is about three miles of the river, at the mouth of Copper, where you can go along it; I was along there a number of times. Above there for several miles it is canyoned up, and comes out to the Recompense camp or Clay Hill crossing on the San Juan; it closes up again there, and doesn't open up until you get to Goodrich, close to Narrow canyon. Q Then there was a stretch of three miles where the road -- there was a road that came sufficiently close to the river that you would ride up and down on the side of the river, that is, off of the bank, to the side, but close to the river. Is that right? MR. BLACKMAR: I didn't understand him to say that. A By taking detours around the head of the canyons we could get fairly close to the river. Where we strike the river is about seventy- five to one hundred feet above the |