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Show 243 horseback. " Another time we went to work road up above Bluff". " We camped first night seven miles above Bluff; had to dig for water for our horses. " Q. In the bed of the San Juan River? " A. In the bed of the San Juan River; and all the Navajos were digging for water for their livestock. There was water in pools around rocks and the stumps of cotton- - woods where it had washed; they were full of fish, and the fish had died, and our stock wouldn't drink the water. But nothing running. " That entire trip, we were gone a week, maybe ten days, I don't know, we had to dig for water that trip. When we got back home, then the water come down." R. 615. Along in August water in the river gets down to eighteen inches or two feet deep; you have to hunt a place where it is confined, to get water enough to bathe in. It spreads into three or four different streams and is full of wrigglers. This condition is in the river from Bluff to the Colorado line and from Bluff to the Colorado River. R. 616- 617. " Q. That is at Bluff? " A. That is the condition in the section from Bluff to the Colorado River or from the Colorado line to the Colorado River. To give you an idea, the bridge at Goodrich - the river is sixty- four feet wide there, confined in solid rock walls; the last time I bathed in the San Juan River it was the last week in August, and under that bridge there, where it is sixty- four feet wide, we couldn't get water deep enough to swim in." R. 617. |
