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Show Record 1669 The place where I saw it when it was only three or four feet wide was at Bloomfield and at a point about six miles below Shiprock. I am sure that that was not the same year that it went entirely dry and think it was the next year. The year the river went dry 1670 it was three or four feet wide and a foot deep right in the channel when I saw it; and the other time when I saw it when it was very low, it was about the same. Those are the tow lowest stages 1671 of water at which I ever saw the San Juan River. One of those two years it was absolutely dry, and the other year it was about 1672 a foot deep and three or four feet wide. The two dry years were in 1902 and 1903 and it was above Farmington that I saw the river when it was only three or four feet wide. The Animas, the LaPlata and the Mancos Rivers all flow into to the San Juan below Farmington, the Animas being the largest tributary of the San Juan so far as I know. Clinton Neal Cotton testified for complainant on direct examination as follows; 1674 I have live at Gallup, New Mexico, for nearly forty years and on the Navajo Reservation at Genavo ten years. I am 70 years of age. I am not very familiar with the San Juan River. 1675 I have driven by it, that is all, Prior to fifteen years ago I had never seen the San Juan River. I had a trading post in 1885 about seventy miles from the San Juan River and got my supplies overland 1676 from Albuquerque. I have no personal knowledge of any boats on the San Juan River. Ernest B. Hyde testified for complainant on direct ex-amination as follows: 1678 I am 64 years old, reside at Salt Lake City, Utah, and have spent most of my life near the San River in San Juan 1679 County. I went into that country in 1880, when I was 14 years old, going overland from Salt Lake City to Escalante, and crossed the Colorado River at Hole- in- the- Rock. A man by the name of Hall was then running a ferry, which was a flat boat about 30 feet long. He |