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Show 949 He did not take a picture on any of the four or five occasions when he saw the San Juan River twenty or thirty feet wide and six inches deep. On the occasion at Clay Hill Crossing when a member of the party wanted to walk across the river he did so, but another member of the party directly behind him, sunk almost to his waist in quicksand. " Q You could see the bottom, see what part of him was in quicksand and what part was in water, could you? " A You wouldn't see anything in the San Juan ordinarily, below the surface. " Q The man that followed him went up to his waist, you say? " A Nearly up to his waist in quicksand. " Q He went up to his waist? Could you tell what that part of him out of sight was in? " A I only know from his own testimony after he got through." R. 2249- 2250. He observed the river during the low stage between Spencer's camp and Piute Creek, a distance of about seventeen miles, at which section of the river they encountered " some of our lowest water." " There were no photographs taken at extreme low water." Pictures of that stretch of the river were taken, although not during the particular time of the low water. They left the party about ten miles below the junction of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers. Mr. Christensen, who accompanied him and Mr. Loper to Lees Ferry from a point about ten miles down the Colorado River, was a cook and boat man. The trip down the river took a day and a half and camp |