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Show Record summer flood season than at other times and more than during the spring high water. I have been in swimming when I have observed sand waves. Where there is a straight stretch of river these waves will run high, and where the water strikes the bank the waves will quiet down; there will then be more riffles and 3355 the waves will rise. When we were in swimming we would walk up the river and wait for the sand waves to start rising, and when we thought they had reached their highest we would go into the river and swim over them. They gradually get top heavy and fall back upstream. When the sand waves are running we can swim in 3356 them. I should say that I have forded the San Juan River at Bluff half a dozen times. I made these fords during the months of July and August. I have never taken cattle across the San Juan, nor have I seen any one else take cattle across that river. 3357 I have been skating on the river in the winter at points five or six miles both ways from Bluff, We generally have skating every year In 1921 I made a trip with the Trimble party as rod man 3358 from Bluff to the mouth of the San Juan River. I can't estimate the number of rapids on the river between Bluff and the mouth of the stream because there were so many of them. Hugh H. Hyde testified on cross examination as follows: I know a man by the name of Christensen who was with the Trimble party. I know some members of the party went down the San Juan River to get some supplied at the mouth of the river and bring them back up the river; I am not sure whether or not it was Christensen who went down. Whether it was Christensen or somebody else, I remember that some one went down and brought supplies back up from the Colorado River. 3359 At that time our camp was about six miles from the mouth of the river. Bert Loper was then with our party as a boatman. Hugh H. Hyde testified on redirect examination as follows: I am one of the persons who appear in the photograph lettered B on Plate 19 of Exhibit 56 and party was camped at that |