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Show Record They could not get back without being towed up. I freighted merchandise to the stores and I freighted from Thompson Springs to Moab considerably, and from Thompson Springs to Bluff, and some from Durango to Bluff; and different places down around the river to the placer mines, down there con-siderably. I conducted my freighting operations between Bluff and Thompson Springs and Bluff and Durango with teams and wagons. I carried supplies down to the placer mines with wagons. The placer mines were about 80 miles below Bluff. I guess about 20 miles from the mouth of the San Juan. I have never been any further down the river. we went down Moonlight Canyon to Nokai. 445 The mines were about 3 miles the other side of Nokai. I went down the North side of the river for 5 miles below Bluff and then crossed the San Juan and went down on the South side. I have had no contact with the Indians. I have seen the Indians on the river. They came over to trade with the Whites and at the store all the time. Their boats are just used for ferries. I have seen the San Juan River when it was dry. I think was about 1890. There was no running water. Water in holes 446 was all. I have never seen the river dry on any other occasion. I have seen it quite low. I have crossed it at that time, the water being about a foot deep right at Bluff. I have crossed it right there at Bluff. I have crossed the San Juan River in the canyons below Bluff in about July, August, September, November and December, in the fall of the year like. We crossed at Sand Island Flat, 4 or 5 miles below Bluff. I have crossed the river in a good many different places, but when I was freighting down below that is where we crossed it. I have forded the river at 447 this point at the mouth of Comb Wash, where Chinle Creek comes into the San Juan on the South side, with freight wagons on a gravel ford. The depth of the water there in the summer months was about 2 or 3 feet sometimes, sometimes lower, sometimes higher. The lowest I have seen it at that point is a foot deep. When there were rains in Colorado at the head of the stream, the river would |