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Show 220 The emigrants constructed the road to the Hole- in- the- Rock and from the south side of the river to Bluff along the north side of the San Juan River. Horses, mules and ox- teams were used in drawing the wagons. They ran cattle on the south side of the San Juan River between Bluff and Mexican Hat and sometimes crossed over to the north side. They had considerable trouble with sand bars and quicksand in crossing the San Juan River, for where the river doesn't have much fall the channel changes with the different stages of the water and the sand bars shift their positions constantly. R. 550- 552. He never saw boats on the river except at the trading posts, where they never used for crossing back and forth. They butchered cattle that ranged around the San Juan River and drank water from it and they had from four to fourteen pounds of silt in their stomachs. It is sometimes necessary to pull hundreds of heads of stock out of the quicksand in the river. R. 553- 554. Storms cause rapid rise in the river, sometimes to the extent of causing a flood and washing away the banks. He has seen the river frozen over and had been in many sand storms along the river. Sand storms are frequent during the spring of the year, especially in May. R. 554- 555. Cross Examination ( R. Vol. 3 pp. 555- 560.) He forded the river hundreds of times both when it was low and when it was rising. He saw the river frozen over many times where the water was quiet; the water doesn't freeze over the riffles. The first time he saw a flood in 1881- 1882, the water covered the land knee deep to a horse. He moved |