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Show Record of sand there, which shifts from one side to the other. This shifting is caused by the summer storms, which bring into the river 1611 different kinds of mud. There are rapids on the San Juan River at the mouth of Piute Canyon, and those are the only ones that are of any extent in there. I have seen Turner's boat on the Colorado. It was a 24 foot motor- boat, and he had a sail on it to help him back up the river. He had placer mines on the Colorado, 1612 and I saw him there in 1915. He was there for several year. His placer mines were at the mouth of Red Canyon and I saw him going down the river in his boat. He was not using the sail when I saw him operating the boat. Other boats referred to by me are row 1613 boats, small skiffs. I have not known of the Navajo Indians owning or using boats, except to carry their wool across the river in 1614 boats owned by the traders. There is a road that goes from Bluff 1615 to Mexican Hat and on to Lee's Ferry, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon. It crosses the San Juan at Goodrich and proceeds south of the river. Some people call it an automobile road, and I have seen autos trav-eling on it. West of Mexican Hat and on the north side of the San Juan, the nearest road is from Blanding to Armstrong Canyon and Edwin Bridge on the White Canyon. The next road is about twenty- five miles north from Bluff to Blanding, and from Blanding to the end of the road at Edwin National Bridge is forty- eight miles. 1616 In 1880 there was a road from White Canyon to Comb Wash and thence to Bluff, but that road has been impassable for thirty- five years. 1617 There are also some trails in that section of the country. There is no road or trail along the San Juan River from Bluff to the Colorado River, and it is impossible to get down there without wading part of the way if you got through afoot. You can make 1618 the trip by land. The only possible way to go overland is down the old Mormon road to Hole- in- the- Wall. If I were going I would go to Hole- in- the- Wall, then climb up on the rim and follow the rim to the mouth of the San Juan; that is the only possible way to get anywhere near the junction of the rivers with a horse or pack |