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Show 868 with bits of drift timber, about twelve or fourteen feet long, and about five or six feet wide; tied together with baling wire. He believes that he probably had help to put the hopper on the raft; but he doesn't remember. R. 2045- 2046. He built this raft about fifteen or sixteen miles above his placer mining operations in May or June 1905, and there was a heavy flow of water coming down the San Juan River, and it was difficult to negotiate crossings. R. 2046- 2047. " Q. What do you mean by crossings? " A. Up above where the road crosses, up above between Bluff and this Hoskinnini reservation there; I had to wait for the water to, you might say, subside, and make it more favorable, because it was a little bit too deep to take any chances in going down the canyon with the raft. " And I had no trouble getting the raft started, because I could easy push it over into the stream, but during the day many times I got caught and stuck on shallows, shallow water; it was a very difficult matter for one person to try to watch just where the main current was going, and to keep the raft afloat. " At that place, at the Recompense camp, the river is quite wide, at least the bed of the river is quite wide; it is what they call the Cottonwoods. " Q. How many hours did it take you to get down? " MR. FARNSPORTH: You mean down to his camp from where he started with this raft? " MAR. BLACKMAR: Yes. |
