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Show Record I am 43. I live at Denver, Colorado. I am a civil engineer. I graduated from the University of Colorado and have followed 581 my profession ever since. I went into the San Juan country in Utah and a part of New Mexico in the year 1923 surveying pros-pecting permits for the Midwest Refining Company. I was in there from the middle of March to the first of September. I worked from about Shiprock to the Clay Hill country, a little below the mouth of Moonlight Creek. We covered a stretch about 10 miles on each side of the river to a point 60 miles West of Bluff. There were 582 four of us in the party most of the times, sometimes we had live. Our mode of transportation was an automobile on the road from Bluff to Mexican Hat, and West of Mexican Hat we had saddle horses, pack outfits. We never used a boat on the river. In crossing the river we forded horseback, and on foot a time or two. We forced above an below Bluff, about the mouth of Chinle Creek and near Moonlight Creek. For a week or ten days I crossed the river every day about the mouth of Chinle Creek. We were camped on one side and worked on the other. I would go over in the morning and back in the evening 583 on horseback. The water was a foot and a half or two feet deep. We had no difficulty with quick sand there. We had to look around to find crossings where there was not any quick sand. Either on foot or on horseback we tried to find a ripple or pick out gravel bars. We would wade out into the river and at that point the water would come a little above my knees. There was quite a little sand and silt in the river in places The fact that we could see these deposits on the banks where it had been left during higher stages of the rive brought that matter to out minds. The horses would not drink the water if they could get 584 anything else because it was very heavily laden with silt. That country west of Bluff is a barren, desolate country. We had trouble in finding grass fro our horses. The first part of the summer was very dry and we had to carry feed altogether from - 89- |