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Show 873 well in the center; but many times it would just sway from one side to the other, and undermine the sand bank, the sand bank would be cut under and fall down; you would hear that splashing going on all day and all night, the bank being eaten away." R. 2059. He has never seen the river any lower than in the year of 1904, but during low water it is not much trouble to wade across. R. 2059. The San Juan River has rather swift current; and, as the water is waist deep, it is all you can do to hold your feet. He has seen it many times when it was not over waist deep. He has gone down on land, probably eight or nine miles below his camp, and has gone up the river all the way to Bluff; sometimes on foot, and sometimes on horseback. R. 2460 In many places there are no trails next to the river, so you can't get near the river with horses. There were Several camps above where he was located, where Moonlight enters the San Juan River, and at the Cottonwoods there had been a camp two or three times. There were no person engaged in agriculture, and no agriculture done there; except what the Indians had done at the Cottonwoods; just a little corn and a few melons. R. 2061. Cross Examination ( R. Vol. 11., pp. 2062- 2071.) When he went in to the San Juan Country he didn't have in mind that he would be called on the detail the exact date |
