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Show Record It crosses the river right below the store. I am on the North side of the river. I do not know when the bridge was built. I was not there at that time. 502 C. C. Bowen testified on cross examination as follows: There is a well recognized distinction between high water and flood water. The high water is the water that comes down in the late spring and early summer months, and the guage shows a natural wave, steady wave throughout the 24 hours. I tend the government gauging station at Goodrich. I have been in that employ about 2 years. The flood water is that water that comes down during 503 any heavy rain or cloud burst. These flood waters generally My home is about 200 yards from the river. I do down to the river to haul water once a week, then I make 3 trips a week to the guage. The guage is just across the river and below, probably one half mile from the house. I have lived at Goodrich about 2 1/ 2 years. Before that I lived in Cortez, Montezuma Valley, in the 504 Southwestern part of Colorado. I lived in Colorado over 20 years. I moved into San Juan in 1878. I came from Animus City. I lived in San Juan County after my arrival in 1878 about 22 years. I lived right on the San Juan River at Jewett. My father had a trading post there. Jewett is up the river from Bluff about 80 miles. It must be 50 miles from the Four Corners. It is in San Juan County, New Mexico. When I came out from Colorado I did not come into Utah at all. The first time I was ever in San Juan County, 506 Utah, was about 25 years ago. I freighted in there from Dolores to Bluff City and the oil fields below Bluff. I did that for one winter. I don't think there has been a year that I have not been in San Juan County since I left Jewett, New Mexico, either after stock or on a round- up. I usually crossed the San Juan River out on the Navajo Reservation after stock. I did that a number of times. That is right down in the Southeast corner of the State of - 74- 1190 |