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Show 185 J O H N A D A M S For Complainant ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 421- 428) He resides at Blanding, Utah, age years, sheepman. Went to San Juan County, landed on San Juan River about April 1, 1882. Was first engaged in the cattle business and ranged stock between Bluff, Utah, and the Colorado River; covered practically all of the country between the 110th meridian and the Colorado River, north of the San Juan as far as the Grand. The country was rough, broken, desolate and barren. R. 421- 422 Has been along the San Juan River on the north bank from Bluff to the Colorado River, is familiar with the character of the river and the stream bed. At Bluff the river bed is wide and contains considerable quicksand and is not suitable for fording. Fords cross on the gravel bars except where bed- rock is exposed in the river bed. The stream in Tull of moving, shifting sand which forms side and cross bars. Through the canyons the stream has a rapid fall and forms rapids, and boulders falling from the cliffs form obstructions in the channel. The river bed is very rought coming through the canyons. Sand does not collect in the canyons where the rapids form but in the broad stretches of river where the fall is low. The sand is continually shifting and moving in the bed of the river. R. 423- 425. Has driven cattle across the San Juan River at the mouth of Comb Wash. R. 425- 426. |