OCR Text |
Show Record paddled a boat across the river behind a power boat. My father and mother, our family and three hired man took the trip with six wagons and teams, the stock and wagons being ferried across the Colorado River. We went through Bluff, Utah, and first settled 1681 at the mouth of Montezuma Canyon. About three years later my father opened a trading post at a point about two miles up the San Juan River form the mouth of Montezuma Wash. We moved from father opened a trading post at a point about two miles up the Montezuma because the river cut out the bottoms and washed our cultivated land away. We moved to the mouth of Comb Wash, where my father continued to trade with the Indians. I helped at the store and we ran some sheep cattle in that country, which I 1682 locked after a good deal of the time. I lived in that country from 1880 until 1911, and have been back on several trips since. We obtained the merchandise for our store from Colorado and New Mexico overland and never received any supplies by way of the 1683 San Juan River in boats. Later we obtained supplies from Thompson, Utah. Merchants at Moab also obtained their supplies overland. 1684 My experience in placer mining has been limited, but I around the placer camps on the San Juan River considerably. My brother sold lots of goods to the placer mines. I have done some freighting to placer mines, but most of my freighting was hauling oil rigs, tools and supplies to the oil field near Mexican 1685 Hat. The freight we sent to the placer mines was by team and wagon and I don't know of any supplies going to them by boat. I have never seen any boats on the San Juan River except ferry 1686 boats, We had an oil boom in 1906 or 1907 and another one about 1910 or 1911. I have seen sand waves at different places on the 1687 San Juan River. Between Bluff and the mouth of San Juan River you can get into the canyon at Comb Wash, at Mexico Hat ( Goodrich). There is no other place you can get in there except possibly by riding or leading a horse you may get in from one side. You can get down the Honaker trail and also at the mouth of Clay Hill |