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Show Record up and down the river there above the mouth of the San Rafael for about 40 miles, and across the river wherever there was a shallow place, riffles we called them. Up and down the river from below the mouth of the San Rafael up to the canyon where it comes into the Book cliffs. I have crossed stock in that stretch from the middle of August until December. sometimes I would cross at Little Valley, the mouth of the San Rafael, after the river had frozen 4288 over, It was not necessary to swim the cattle in low water. Sometimes we swum them in high water. I have crossed the cattle all along there on the riffles without swimming them. Chris Halverson testified upon cross examination as follows: 4289 The stretch I refer to is from a point a mile or two below the mouth of the San Rafael up stream for a distance of approximately 40 miles. I crossed cattle below the mouth of the San Rafael I think the first time in 1891 or 1892. I don't remember when I crossed at that place after that. Other times I have crossed stock father up. In crossing the stock I would not guide their course very much. They seemed to understand the riffles themselves. They would follow the course where the water was shallow. We guided 4290 them to a certain extent so they would not get off the riffle and we guided them the so they would not get into deep water. In taking them across I always selected the place where by picking their way they would avoid the necessity of swimming, and kept them where the bed of the river was hard. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, recalled, and testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 4292 At the request of counsel for complainant I went to the Historian's Office of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake and culled what I thought was necessary for the purposes of the complainant 4293 and had the same typed. Callville was never a town. It was a warehouse which was built by the Mormon Church about 1860 or 1863 or 1864 for the 614 |
