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Show Record little rock in the valley. Our higher countries or rougher countries sometimes are our best winter feeds. Our stock winters better in those rougher, 4427 higher countries than they do in the valleys. The people around Monticello feed some, but in this pie- shaped country west of the La Sal mountains they do not feed. They do not intend to feed in that section of the country. I do not think we have any place in the State where we have more winter feed at the present time than 4428 in Dry Valley, that is this pie- shaped valley I am speaking of. I have a few sheep in Dry Valley now. I have been over the range pretty well this fall in Dry Valley. Have been there practically 4429 all summer. I cannot give you can estimate of what I think the valley will support in the way of sheep or cattle. I could not give you an estimate of how many acres it would take to winter range a thous- and head of cattle there. Counsel for complainant: I am referring to this section between the Colorado and the San Juan River and west of the 110th meridian. Witness: I am talking about this section of country 4430 north of the Blue Mountains, between the Blues and the LaSals. The area of country extending from a point below the confluence of the Green and the Colorado and thence east. In my direct examination, as to the pie- shaped section west of the 110th meridian and between the Colorado and San Juan Rivers, I said it was a winter range and too low for dry farming, not susceptible to dry farming. There is a large acreage of that 4431 section of country that could be farmed if you had water on it. That is true clear down to the confluence of the two rivers. The people in Bluff burn wood. There is very little coal, if any, burned in Bluff, and very little in Monticello and Blanding. Most of the coal that is burned there is brought down from Thompson Springs or Dolores. |