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Show 972 The boat was obtained from a party of three men at the mouth of Slick Horn Canyon, one of whom was Al Rogers, a newspaper man of Rico, Colorado. Another one of the party was Bill Clark, the other one was also Clark, he believes his name was John. This trip was made in August. R. 2312. " Q Just tell me about the progress down the river. " A You know August is quite a warm month; we had very little water, so it made no difference to us whether we was in the river or out of it. I know when we got to the Indian Farms we got out, we couldn't ride, because the river was so shallow, that we just had to drag the boat along." R. 2313. At Indian Farms in 1895 the river was probably three hundred feet wide and contained so little water that it had no channel that would float a boat, and there were places " the three of us actually drug the boat." " Q Through Indian Farms, did the river at that time appear to have substantial banks? " A It was big bottoms; the bottoms had been put there by the river, I presume naturally so, and the bottoms had big cottonwood trees; that was what was called the Indian Farms." There were no willows, as he remembers - there were very few willows " along the San Juan river". From Honaker Trail he boated down the river probably sixty miles. R. 2313. In that sixty miles rapids were encountered, and at one place " we had to take our boat clear out of the river." They had to work it around through the rocks, great boulders, at the mouth of Grand gulch, and get it back in the river below this gorge. There were several rapids in the canyon above this place but none below, but from Grand Gulch on down, with the exception |