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Show 701 they ferried Indians over the river; Indians would come there to trade. " Also at the mouth of the Comb Wash. In fact, I run a ferry there myself. And up at the mouth of McElmo, another place they had ferry boats and ferried Indians across, -- was about all the boats I have seen used there, that I remember of. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q. These Indians would go across to trade at the white trading posts, would they? " A. Yes sir." R. 1685- 1686. There were two oil booms in the locality, one about 1906 or 1907, and the other about 1910 or 1911, during which times he handled freight, using teams and wagons, with which to haul it, and never used the river for any of it. He has seen sand waves on the San Juan River at different places, and had been along the river at places where it is possible to get to it from Four Corners [ where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico join] practically to the mouth. It is possible to get in to the canyon between Bluff and the mouth of the San Juan River at Comb Wash, where there is a crossing, and it is open again at Mexican Hat or Goodrich. It is possible to go down the Honaker Trail about eight or nine miles down the river from Goodrich, and also to get in at Clay Hill Gulch or the mouth of Moonlight Canyon, which is the same thing, and then to go down the river from that point to |