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Show 181 it come up just about to the horse's knees or about two feet high but that is not the lowest he has ever seen it. R. 412- 413. " Q. I mean if you went across the river at a place where it was more shallow than any other place that you know of, have you not at some place in making that crossing, for a considerable distance, been in water that was two feet or more deep? " A. Sometimes when it is scattered all out over there it would be very shallow in some places, and when I crossed the channel here and there it would be deeper. " Q. In those channels the depth, so for as you have known the San Juan water, has always been more than two feet; isn't that true? " A. I don't think so. " Q. In the channels? " A. I don't hardly think so. " Q. Would you say the minimum depth has been, according to your best judgment, when it has been most shallow, about two feet? " A. On any ford it is, regular ford? R. 413- 414. Further Examination - ( R. Vol. 3, pp. 414- 416.) He was one of the first settlers at Bluff and there is an old Indian trail which leads along the north side of the San Juan River but it was a long distance from the river. It would be over one hundred miles. R. 414. When he went to Bluff he didn't follow that trail as he went into Arizona and there was an old road there. From there he left the road and struck north east on an Indian trail on the south side of the San Juan River; went through the Navajo reservation and crossed the San Juan River near Bluff. |