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Show 872 time when he returned the camp was partly buried. The walls of the houses were made of mud and rock, and the water had melted the walls down; and he re- built them. The tool house was pretty well covered up with sand and mud. He found about three feet of sand in the tool house. After the big flood of 1811, when he returned to camp, his camp was completely buried. Just the top of the roof was protruding out of the mud. R. 2055- 2056. He believes the building was about a ten- feet building, and the house was built six feet above the low water level of the stream; it would make the top of the building sixteen or seventeen feet above the low water level. R. 2057. He has seen sand waves on the San Juan River so many times he couldn't differentiate between the times. R. 2057- 2058. He Recalls that in the year of 1904 the river was nearly dry; and when the summer freshets came down from the side canyons, it was as thick with mud, sand and sediment that it would choke the fish. They would come out on the shallow part of the river bed, and one could pick them up and throw them on high ground. He not only saw this, but he picked them up himself. He doesn't know that kind of fish they were, but they were pretty bony, and he doesn't believe that they were fit to eat. R. 5058. He has noted the effect of the change of the stage of the river on the sand bars; in that the main current would shift from one side to the other;" sometimes it would stay pretty |