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Show Record water. I remember that the river was so shallow that we couldn't ride the boat at Indian Farms and had to drag it along. The river was probably three hundred feet wide, but there was no channel that would float a boat and there was places when we actually had 2314 to drag the boat. On this trip we went down the river probably sixty miles to a point sixty miles below Honaker Trail. We encountered rapids and at one place had to take our boat clear out of the river, working it around through the rocks at Grand Gulch and them back in the river below the rapid, and then went on our way. From there on there were no more rapids, but there were several rapids in the canyon above there. There was a little rapid at the mouth of Moonlight below. In going down we would run on to a bar, get of the boat and hunt a little deeper place if we 2315 could. The largest sand waves I ever saw in my life were above the Mendenhall cabin about February, 1895. Just before these sand waves appeared there had been an ice gorge at the head of the canyon, which stopped the flow of the river. I was prospecting the bed and could cross without getting my feet wet because the ice gorge dammed the river off. When the ice gorge broke, the water rose so high that it carried part of my placer outfit away. Whenever there is a flood you have the sand waves while the flood 2316 is on. On our sixty mile trip down and up the San Juan from Honaker Trail we did not encounter any sand waves to amount to anything; the water was too low. We towed and didn't row the boat coming back upstream because we didn't have enough water, but had to have the boat in order to carry our bedding and food. Indian or Piute Farms is located seventy- seven miles below Chinle Creek 2317 and fifty miles up from the mouth of the San Juan. Piute Farms and the mouth of Piute Creek are not the same place; Piute Creek is only twenty- one miles from the mouth of the San Juan. The Piutes raised a little corn and had a little farm along the bank of the river at Piute Farms. When I left the San Juan River in 2316 1895 I went from Bluff to Moab on horseback. During my stay in |
