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Show 977 boats bringing merchandise to Moab or taking merchandise out. When he left Moab he crossed on the ferry boat with three thousand head of sheep, which he took back to Chicago and from there went to Texas, then to Oklahoma and up into Nebraska, where he joined the United States Army during the Spanish- American War, after which he came back to Colorado, reaching there in 1899. He came back on to the Colorado River in 1907. In 1921 he made a trip on the San Juan River with the United States Geological Survey under Mr. K. W. Trimble. R. 2322. He joined the party at Greenriver, Utah, and helped carry the survey from Moab to Bluff and then on down to Lees Ferry, as far as the survey went. The party was equipped with three open boats with flat bottoms, flared sides, sixteen inches deep, and about a four foot beam. He was hired as boat man. He signed up for the trip on the 29th [ June 1921] and continued on until December. " Q Did you see any changes in the San Juan river which occurred between your trip in there in 1895 and 1921? " A I told you about where the river bed at Indian Farms was, three or four hundred feet wide. In 1921 the Indian Farms was completely gone, and Mr. Trimble measured the river, and it was thirty- three hundred feet wide at that point, and when we went down in the 1921 trip to the Indian Farms, just a trickling stream through the sand, so many sand bars and things, you know, three or four streams to the river; it was real low. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q You mean the river had spread out? What was the farm, cultivated land? |
