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Show 693 Animus was dry, I saw it , it was dry too. " I crossed the Is Plata, and it was dry all the way up." R. 1665. It was in 1902 when the river dried up, and she does not recall any other year when it has been dry. She has seen it real low, until just a little stream of water, maybe three feet wide and six inches deep, would be running. R. 1666. She has seen this condition at several places both above Farmington and between Shiprock and Bluff. She doesn't recall how many different years that has occurred. R. 1666- 1667. For twenty- nine years she has had considerable contact with the Navajo Indians, has made a study of their lives and habits, and during all of that time she has never seen the Indians use boats to travel on the river. R. 1667- 1668. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 9, pp. 1668- 1673.) The year following the one when the river was dry, she saw it at Bloomfield and about six miles below Shiprock, when it was only three or four feet wide R. 1668- 1669. " Q. You say it was very low that year that it was dry? " A. It was very low; then the next year I crossed it again, it was very low; they told me afterwards it had gone |
