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Show Record and sometimes I had to pull them out of the quick sands. Sometimes they would sink up to their stomachs. Many times my boys pulled hundreds of head out. We have heavy rains in that country once in a while, not regularly. They raise the river sometimes to the extent that it washes out part of the bank. I have seen the river frozen over in the winter time. It was about Christmas time. I worked on a road at the mouth of a wash where I hauled wood across the river on the ice. It was awfully cold weather, 4 below zero for 6 weeks. That was about 1904, I guess. 555 I have been in a sand storm on the San Juan River. Generally in May we had some heavy sand storms. I do not remember whether they occurred very often. Parley Rogerson Butt testified on cross examination as follows: The two occasions I spoke of when I forded the river was when I was with the Geological Survey Expedition. I forded over 556 and then back. I have forded it on other occasions hundreds of times. When I forded it with the Government party the water was clear and not so high. Other times I have forded it when the water was rising and the quick sand made it kind of dangerous but the 557 horses were used to it. My boys pulled those hundreds of cattle out of Montezuma Creek, not the San Juan River. I have pulled them out of the river. My boys pulled them out of one of the tributaries of the San Juan. 558 I saw the river frozen over once. I have seen it frozen over more than once, many a time where the water is quiet. Where there was a ripple it did not freeze over. The occasion when I saw it frozen over was a very cold winter, 4 degrees below zero for 6 weeks. 559 The first flood after my arrival in Bluff was in 1881. I arrived in Bluff in 1879. I do not know what you call much of a flood but it covered all the land knee deep to a horse. I moved - 84- |