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Show 703 this ferry from sixty to eighty- five days in the year; only when heavy thunder showers would come and swell the river. There is no ferry at the mouth of Comb Wash at the present time. R. 1690. The seasons of the year when the rain will cause a rise in the river starts, as a rule, in the latter part of July, there were generally some freshets then, and the water recedes during the mouth of August. Then in September there will be heavy showers again that will cause the river to rise, and also in the spring of the year when the snows are melting in the nigh mountain, the river in high and they need a ferry, as a rule, from the latter part of May until some time in July, sometimes until the first August. R. 1690- 1691. Sometimes the storms are just quick electric storms that pile water in the river in great torrents and swell the river for two or three days, then it goes down again, and that is when they have to use the ferry. The one he had at the mouth of Comb Wash was a boat about thirty feet long, possibly twelve feet wide, a flat bottom boat, and they ran it on a cable. The only other ferry boats he has seen are ordinary skiffs from twelve to fourteen or sixteen feet long and five or six feet wide, flat bottom, pointed at one end. R. 1691- 1692. He is familiar with the roads that were in the country during the early days. There was the old Mormom Trail that went from Bluff to the Hole- in- the- Rock, the one they usually came in on; one that went up the San |
