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Show 683 had to build it up to get through. At that time there was no road to Goodrich, and the road that crossed from the north to the south side of the river crossed at Chinle Creek. R. 1644. This was in the years of 1898 and 1909. The last man that went over this road had to build it up. You could get over it by building it up each trip. R. 1645. Redirect Examination : ( R. Vol. 9 pp. 1645- 1648). At the time he crossed the Colorado River with Turner [ at the mouth of Red Canyon] the stock all swam through the deeper channel. None of the stock was crossed in any boat. R. 1645- 1646. Along the San Juan River the stretches where he could travel near the river were at the Recompense Camp, Clay Hill Crossing, at the mouth of the San Juan River and Nokai Canyon, and these stretches of two or three miles include all the places along the river in the canyon where you can go, and he couldn't stay right along the bank all the time even in those two or three miles. R. 1646. The trail near Nokai Canyon is from one half to three quarters of a mile back from the river for about two miles of its length, and at Zahn's Camp there is a mile and a half that you can work back and forth along until you get |