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Show Record got lower; probably eight or ten inches lower, but I just can't remember. It did not get very much lower but some lower. We pumped water from the river in our mining operations and this pumping made no perceptible difference in the stream flow at that 2043 time. This pumped water would percolate back into the river again. I was at the river twice. When I was down there in May I did not do any operating and when I came back in the summer time, about the first of July, the water was very low. We used enough of it in our operations to go through a four inch suction pipe, with a discharge of two and a half inches. There was no time when we diverted 2044 the entire flow of the San Juan River. The sand in the 2045 water caused us considerable difficulty. It would cut out the packing of our pumps any time we operated. We probably operated just three or four weeks in the summer, you might say in August. In 1905 I was back on the river again and used the river for 2046 transporting a sluicing hopper. This sluicing hopper weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds and came overland to the river at a point approximately fifteen or eighteen miles above my camp. I constructed a fart about twelve of fourteen by five of six feet 2047 in dimensions and loaded the hopper on the raft. This was in May or June and there was heavy flow of water and at that time it was difficult to cross the river at fords. I had to wait for the water to subside because it was too deep to take any chances in going down the canyon with the raft. When I started down with the raft I got stuck many times during the day in shallow water; it was a very difficult matter for one person to try to watch just where the main current was going and to keep the raft afloat. At one place called the Cottonwoods the river is quite wide. I started my trip down with the hopper on the raft at about ten o'clock and arrived at camp about sundown, and I am inclined to think it 2048 was in the month of July. I rode the raft myself, except when it got stuck, and then I would use a thirty foot rope and with that |