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Show 682 he saw going down was a flat bottom skiff, pointed at one end, square at the other, about twelve feet long and three feet wide. One man was in the boat with a roll of bedding and a little camp outfit. He took it for granted he had some food as the man was a prospector. R. 1640. The second time he saw a man going down the river, the boat was a little larger. He believes fourteen feet long and four and one- half feet or five feet wide. He saw nothing in this boat from where he stood, as he was about one hundred- fifty feet away. The boat wasn't going down the river; it was stuck on a sand- bar about fifteen miles above Bluff. R. 1641- 1642. " Q. That fellow was going on down the last you saw of him? " A. Yes. I understood from the trader he was going to the camp below." R. 1642. ( Testimony ordered stricken out. R. Vol. 9, pp. 1642). He saw the first of these two men about 1898, and the second in about 1909. R. 1642. At this time, the road down the San Juan from New Mexico to Bluff was in existence. This road came down Mancos, Colorado, on down to Bluff right along by the San Juan River. Afterwards this road was washed out. R. 1643. The road from Bluff down toward the Colorado River was also in existence at that time, but it was impassable except for stock. He went over the end of it that carried him south of Comb Wash to the mouth of Chinle Creek, but he |
