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Show 879 It gradually went down in the letter part of July; and dried up completely. The dry condition of the river continued, he believes, about five weeks. He didn't see the river at this point after it started to rise again, of September; but he saw it at another place. R. 2077. Where he saw it is was pretty high; full of floating trees and logs. This point was at Butler's Wash, about fifteen miles down the river below Bluff. He went back in to the San Juan country in November of that same year, and stayed until about the first of February of the following year. When he went back the river was very low, and in the March of January it froze up, except a small stream about a feet and a half wide. When he first went in it had a stream bed that was probably forty of fifty feet wide, and about two feet deep. Since 1903 he has only been in the country once; that was in 1915. When he left the San Juan country in 1902 and 1903 he went out by the way of Bluff, Utah, and Dolores, Colorado by wagon. R. 2078. The times he has seen sand waves on the San Juan River were during high water, and he has seen the waves themselves about four feet high. This was during the period when he first went down to the property; and lasted for several days. When he was back in the winter the waves were low; they wouldn't be over a feet or two high. In 1915 it was higher water, and the waves would be probably three or four feet high. R. 2078. |
