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Show 708 In the country west of Bluff, Utah, there is lots of loose sand, which is blown first one way, then another, filling up the small side gulches; not the deep canyon, but the little side gulches that run into the San Juan River. He has seen them filled practically level with sand from sand storms and then the heavy rain cuts the sand and silt out and it dumps it in the river. This filling and washing out has been going on ever since he has been familiar with the country. R. 1699- 1700. It sometimes gets cold enough so that ice will form on the San Juan River ten or twelve inches thick, where there is enough water to freeze it that deep; some years it will freeze a foot thick or ten inches and other years it will just run mush ice. Ice ten or twelve inches thick is unusual, as usual occurrence is mush ice. He has also seen ice gorges between the mouth of Lime Creek and Goodrich where it would back the water up fifteen or twenty feet high, and throw slabs of ice clear out on the banks on either side. R. 1700. He has seen the San Juan River once when it was completely dry, this being between 1900 and 1902. R. 1701. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 9, pp. 1701- 1702.) It was in August, as he remembers, when he saw the San Juan River completely dry for possibly a couple of days. R. 1701. As he recalls, he got to the Hole- in- the- Rock with his father and mother on the 24th of July [ 1880]. He and his brother, Frank, are interested in a stock company in that country at the present time. He is older |