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Show 3670 Hyde- D 1692 boats? A The only ones I have seen, outside of the one I had there, are ordinary skiffs, I would say from twelve to fourteen or sixteen feet long, narrow, five or six feet wide, flat bottom, pointed at one end. Q Mr. Hyde, were you familiar with the roads in that country during the early days? A I think most of them, yes. Q Just tell me what roads you had in and about Bluff, Utah, and where they ran. A Well, there was the old Mormon trail that came from Bluff to the Hole- in- the- Rock, along that way. Q That is the one you originally came in on A Yes sir. Then there was a road went up the San Juan river from Bluff that followed the river; it was down in the river bottoms at times, then had to go out and head little gulches and cross points, run up the river to a point about ten miles above McElmo wash; from there it bore off to the northeast and went over to Mancos, Colorado, on over to Durango, and so on. There was also a road that went up the Recapture wash, which is about five miles above Bluff; that went up through what is now known as Monticello, the county seat of San Juan county at present, and on over to Moab; very poor |