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Show Hyde- C 646 A No, I wasn't; I couldn't say whether that flood, first flood, hurt the Bluff bottoms or not; they were the largest bottom in there. Q How long after that first flood was it there came any other flood that caused any particular damage? A Well, the flood I remember doing the next damage was the one that caught us after we moved to the mouth of Rincon. That was probably a couple of years, -- two or three years after. Q After the first one? A After the one that fixed us at Montezuma. I don't call every high water and spurt there a flood. I was referring to those particular times, what we would call a heavy flood. Q As I understand you, from the time beginning some two or three years after your arrival until you left Bluff to go to Salt Lake City to live, there has been from time to time certain damage done to the channel there above Chinle creek that has created a menace to farming land during any high flood. A That is the proposition. Q When you arrived there at Rincon, Comb wash, your father had already established the cable boat ferry? A Yes, he had the ferry started, was working on it, when we went down; wasn't running then. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Is Comb wash and Comb creek the same thing? A That is the same; they come into a creek opposite Chinle. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q That was used in conveying Indians and their loads? 2614 |