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Show Record Several times perhaps. They would have their boats tied to the banks of the river sometimes. I do not know how they got them to the banks. John Adams testified fro complainant on direct examination as follows: 421 I live in Blanding, Utah. I have lived there about 15 years. I am 63 years old. I am at present in the sheep raising business. I first landed on the San Juan about the first of April, 1882. I have been familiar with the country ever since that time down to date. I have been over practically all of the country a little South of the San Juan but mostly West of Bluff in the cattle 422 business. It is a very rough, broken country. I have been in the country between the San Juan River and the Colorado, West of the 110th Meridian. I have covered pretty near the whole thing. That is a rough, broken, barren, desolate, 423 country. There are no irrigated farms in that district. I am quite familiar with the San Juan River. I have been all along the North banks of it from Bluff to where it goes into the Colorado. I know the character of the bed of the river. Right at Bluff the river bed is sandy, quick sandy. Of course there are some places that are gravelly across the bed, and when they do any fording they do it 424 across those gravelly places. Below Bluff it cuts through a very high limestone formation and it is very crooked and rough; and below that, at Goodrich, the formation sinks down and they cross it again. There is a bridge there now. Then it goes through a limestone formation for a good many miles; then the limestone goes under; there is a sandstone a top, and from there on it cuts through a sandstone formation clear down to where it empties into the Color-ado. The bed of the river is very quick sandy. The current keeps the sand moving continually in the channel of the river. That condition is found just below Bluff for 15 or 20 miles until it enters into the limestone formation and then it runs in kind of 425 rapids. the rapids extend through the canyon as far as I was at - 56- |