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Show Record above the flow of the water. Our camp was wrecked in 1911, in October. That was the year that the big flood occurred in the San Juan country. According to my recollection they had high water and partly wrecked my buildings a year or two before the 2056 big flood. There must have been two or three feet of sand in our tool house. After the big flood of 1911 only the top of the roof 2057 was protruding out. It was about a ten foot building. The top of our house, I should judge, was about sixteen feet above the low water level of the river - maybe seventeen. On a great many 2058 occasions I have observed and waves on the river. In 1904, after we had had summer cloud bursts, I saw the water so thick with mud 2059 and sand that it would choke the fish in the river. The main current of the river would shift from one side to the other; sometimes it would stay pretty well in the center, and many times would sway from one side to the other, and you would hear the caving bank splashing day and night as it was eaten away. I have seen the water got so low during the low water period that there was not much trouble in wading across the San Juan River. In response to questions propounded by the Special Master 2060 the witness testified that the meant that the water was not over waist deep. I have seen the river that way many times. Resuming his direct examination Otto J. Zahn testified as follows: I have had occasion to go on land below our placer claims probably about six or seven miles on a few occasions and have gone 2061 above pretty much all the way up to Bluff. Sometimes I made those trips on foot, sometimes on horseback. In some places the river is canyoned up so that you can't get near it with horses. There were several placer camps opened up just above us at Moon-light, and there has been a camp at the Cottonwoods two or three times. There was no agriculture down there except what the Indians did at the Cottonwoods, where they raised a little corn and a few |