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Show 670 He never spent very much time in and around Hite and never received any mail at the Rite Post Office. R. 1608. He has observed the sand in the San Juan River and knows that it shifts a great deal. He has crossed it when the water could be four feet deep on one side and the channel would be all on one side; coming book in three or four days, it would be just the reverse and impossible to cross on account of quick sand. This particular point was called Clay Hill Crossing, and that is located about seventy- five miles below Bluff, about forty miles below the south of Chinle Creek, - it may be marked on the map as Recompense Camp or Piute Farms. R. 1609- 1610. He has observed that the San Juan River carries a lot of sand and sediment, and at what is called Johns Camp, has observed that the bed of the river has raised ten feet in the last few years and the sand shifts from one side to the other. The bottoms will be taken out and put right on the other side, - whole manses of sand at a time. The summer storms are usually what caused the shifting of the bottom from one side of the river to the other, and during these storms, the river runs very heavy in rand. The different streams bring in different kinds of and that will be deposited in one place, which causes the different colorings in the different sends. R. 1610. The San Juan River is canyoned up from Bluff, except where it breaks through a ridge of mountains and leaves an opening, and these canyons are dropping off more or less all the time, and when they drop into the |