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Show 205 He has crossed the river afoot, on horseback, in wagon, and every other way expect in a car. He doesn't know how many different places he has crossed it but has crossed it all the way from Bloomfield down to Mexican Hat. R. 498. He has crossed the river on foot between Bluff and Mexican Hat. " Q. Do you recall at what point? " A. Well, right at Mexican Hat, and right at the store." R. 499. The highest water in his memory, was on the 29th of September, 1927, when the water was thirty- three feet deep. High water occurs usually in May and June, then in September and October, occasionally in August. The only people who live at Mexican Hat at the Present time is he and his family and another family about one mile and a half above them and there are no other people living in that county between the Colorado River and the San Juan that he known of. R. 449- 450. During the flood period the water carries considerable driftwood. The flood of September 1927, down Gypsum Creek, brought down so much debris that it practically dammed the San Juan River. " Q. When the river starts rising does it come up pretty rapidly? " A. Two years ago in September it rained seven feet in one hour, and something like two weeks ago had a flood there twenty- eight feet, it raised five feet there in twenty- five minutes at that time." R. 500 " Q. Good deal of debris comes down that river? " A. Yes, it is just a solid stream of silt and mud and gravel." R. 500. |
