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Show Record and we carried a level from Moab to bluff and from Moab to Lee's Ferry. The Trimble party had three open boats, with flat bottoms and flared sides; they were sixteen inches deep, with about a four foot beam. I was boatman and was with the party from June 29 until December, 1921. In 1921 the Indian Farms was com-pletely gone and the river channel was thirty- three hundred feet wide at that point, with only a trickling stream through the sand and three or four streams to the river; it was very low. 2324 The three thousand foot width of river at Piute Farms was not entirely covered with water in 1921, but at one time Mr. Trimble estimated that the water was six feet deep over the entire thirty-three hundred feet of width. That is one of the times I referred 2325 to when I said that I wouldn't cross the river. At the high stage of river to which I have just referred we were camped at the bend below Piute Farms and came near losing a boat; and when our party went through Indian Farms there was hardly any water. This big flood came about August 1; we had had other floods before 2326 then. These floods nearly always commence in the latter appeared when we reached that point in 1921. In 1921 there was a little rapid there, but the large boulders that had been there in 1895 had disappeared. I recall no other changes in the river that are worthy of note. 2327 In response to a question propounded by the Special Master, Mr. Loper testified that aside from the change in the river at Indian Farms and at Grand Gulch, he would not say that he remembered any other changes of any note in the San Juan River between the years 1895 and 1921. Resuming his direct examination Mr. Loper testified as follow: In bringing the boats of the Trimble party down the river the difficulties encountered by us were that we portaged our loads at one rapid, located just above Slick Horn Canyon; I ran 305 |