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Show 1069 off the sandbars? " A No sir; just let the boys take them out into the stream, and hand- spike the boat off the bar and let it swing clear." R. 2544. Cross Examination, ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2545- 2547) One of the two row boats he saw going down the San Juan River was one he used himself and the other he saw about a week before with two men in it. He thinks that perhaps they were miners from the cut fit they had in their boat, but he didn't know who they were. The boat was headed down at a point about four miles up the river from Bluff. He couldn't say whether or not the two men in the boat stopped at Bluff. R. 2545. It was the small eighteen foot launch that he took up to Dandy Crossing in July or August, 1912. He did not see a stern wheel boat on the river at that point and he was not at Lees Ferry when there was such a boat anywhere above there. He has had no acquaintance with the beat known as the Charles H. Spencer, and he didn't get to Dandy Crossing with the large launch. R. 2545- 2546. While he was there he did not go up to the coal property and there had been only about three hundred pounds of coal hauled from Warm Creek down to Lees Ferry. R. 2547. Redirect Examination, ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2547) When he said that the water was better below Warm Creek than above he meant that it was easier to navigate because the river was wider and there was not so much swift water, also the water was deeper. R. 2547. Re cross Examination, ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2548) The river was both wider and deeper. He only went above Warm Creek once. R. 2548. |
