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Show Record 1629 at the mouth of Chinle. I was next in Utah in 1902 and crossed the river on that trip at Mule Ears. Most of the time we were out of eight of the river in going to Mule Ears, but there would be a stretch of two hundred yards when we would be right along 1630 the river. This was along in September or October. My next visit 1631 to Utah was in 1906, when I again crossed the Indians. My store was about eighteen miles south of the river, and I operated that store from 1906 until December, 1910. We hauled timber for a house from the San Juan River to my store and I was at the river numerous times. From that time until the present I have never 1634 had occasion to cross the San Juan, except in a ferry boat. I suppose I have driven down to the banks of the San Juan River with a team twenty- five or thirty times in my life. Aside from the occasion when I have driven close to the river, my only contact with the river itself was in going back and forth on my various trips into that section, concerning which I have testified. It 1535 was on the Colorado River at Red Canyon, about eight miles below 1636 White Canyon, that I saw Turner's boat. Turner had a ranch there and I stayed with him four days. I made no trips with him in the boat, except to cross my stock, and as I was leaving he got in his boat to go down the river to the mouth of Hall's Canyon, which 1637 he said was twenty miles below, to do some placer mining. We took two saddle horses and two pack animals with their packs across the river in flat- bottom skiff at Red Canyon and not in Turner's 1640 boat. I did not cross in the power boat. The first boat I saw going down the San Juan River was a flat- bottom skiff, about 12 feet long and 3 feet wide. There was one man with the boat, who had a roll of bedding and what I Judged to be a little camp outfit. 1641 He was a prospector. The second boat I saw going down the river was of similar character, only larger; I believe it was 4 1/ 2 or 5 feet wide and 14 feet long. I was about one hundred and fifty feet away from him and not close enough to see his load. He was 213 |