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Show Record to deeper water, and then picked up the other end and carried it around to deeper water, and that process was repeated until we got the boat in deeper water. 3752 We had to drag the boat at numerous places, but I recall only one place where we had to do any actual lifting in that par-ticular stretch of the river. In that section of the river it was frequent occurrence that we had to drag the boats. 3753 At the mouth of Piute Creek it was necessary to portage he supplies around the first and second rapids and take the boats through empty. The boat I was in was nosed through two or three apids below Piute Creek. When we got to the 13- foot rapid, mile 1.4, it was necessary to portage everything. As far as I recall hat completes all the difficulties with rapids. You can get in and out of the San Juan River Canyon at oodrich and numerous places above Goodrich. Below Goodrich is a rail at Mendenhall cabin, Honiker Trail, Slick Horn Gulch, Clay Hill Crossing and others. All of the trails are shown by open lines on the map. he place appearing on the map at the north end of Clay Hill, called " Red House" is a small stone building which was once occupied by sheepherders and cattle herders during portions of the year. there is no settlement there. 3756 I experienced difficulty on the San Juan River with floods. They were only small floods. The gravest of them did not exceed a stage of 6 or 7 feet. When the river was in flood in excess of about two feet, we did not row any boat on it; we stayed off the river until the flood descend. The crest of a flood would usually pass in a few hours. 3757 A rise on the river of two feet would keep us off the river because the sand waves would be so bad there would be danger of the boats swamping. I believe the sand waves were most con-spicuous during the falling stages. As to prospectors we saw the inhabitants of the village |