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Show Record working it or having it worked. When I made those trips I went overland. I never went down the river in a boat. None of the properties I have mentioned are being worked at the present time except the Big Indian. I was in the Big Indian country a few weeks ago and saw some men there. I wasn't through the mine. When I was last on the San Juan River in the neigh- 4424 hood of Mendenhall Loop, I saw two or three places miners there. I used to go swimming in the San Juan River at Bluff when a boy. I have waded across it as a boy. I cannot give you the dates of the two floods that I have mentioned. I remember the big flood at Bluff when the water came up into the orchards and into the fields, and into the town. I remember it was at the time I was working as a young fellow at the Gold Queen mine in the Blue Mountains. And I remember another time when the flood wasn't so heavy, but it came up close to the 4425 edge of the town; that was quite a bit later and possibly could have been the 1911 flood. The thunder showers that come through our section of country along the river do not affect the river very much. The river runs up into Colorado, and it takes those heavy fall rains, what we call our September rains, that drains the entire country that raises the river. You do not see much of a raise in the river at Bluff from the thunder showers at Bluff. The river rises in September but it is from September rains, where the rains are gen-eral over the higher country, and that is the situation we get every year. Those rains do not compare with the two big floods I 4426 have referred to. The grasses on the winter range that I have referred to is not confined to the washes but is all over the country. As to that pie- shaped area from the La Sal Mountains down to the junction of the San Juan and the Colorado, I said it was productive if they had water to irrigate it. It is not sus-ceptible to dry farming. Practically all of it could be irrigated. There are rock croppings all along those canyons, but there is very |