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Show 273 We has had occasion to pull cattle out of the quicksand in the river. Sand bars form in the river at different places along its course. They will form in one place then wash out and form again somewhere else. " Q. Are there many rapids in the San Juan River between Medicine ( Mexican) Hat and the Junction of the Colorado? " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: How can he tell that? He has never been on the river. " A. I have been all the way over it afoot, crossed it. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Between Esic Mexican Hat and the Junction of the Colorado? " A. Yes sir. " Q. Where? " A. All the way down, went clean through the canyon to the mouth of Nokai; surveyed that whole country out there for oil permits. " Q. Where is that with reference to the mouth of the San Juan River? " A. That, I should judge, is about forty miles east of the mouth of the San Juan." * R. 704- 706* Cross examination ( R. Vol. 4 - pp. 705- 719) In 1893 he freighted drilling machine and placer machines into Bluff and lumber down on below Bluff. The material was got at Mancos, Colorado, the drilling machine being left at Bluff and lumber taken on down to Zonn's Camp at the mouth of Nokai Canyon, about seventy five miles west of Bluff on |