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Show Record the only once I saw. Frank H. Karnell testified for defendant on direct 4452 examination as follows: I am fifty- eight. I am farming at present. I live at Bluff City, Utah. I am Justice of the Peace at Bluff. 4453 I first came to the San Juan section from Pueblo, Colorado, in 1904, and went down to Mexican Hat to placer mine. After my arrival there I went up the river looking over the bars and discovered a camp stove about 12 or 15 miles above my camp. I needed that stove so I took some logs and built a raft and placed the stove on the raft and rafted it down to camp. That was my first navigation experience on the San Juan. It was in the latter part of August. 4454 On that occasion I remained there four or five months. I had no boats when I arrived there, but shortly afterward I bor- 4455 rowed a boat from a Navajo Indian named Jim Joe and used it about five months. I made a trip in it don to Soda Basin, a distance of about 25 miles by the river, and used it in the basin and in the upper canyon, taking it up and down the river as we moved camp and worked the bars. I would take the boat up stream as well as down stream. Sometimes we would move a mile or two up stream and sometimes four or five miles at a time. Going up stream we would 4456 row the boat and pole it. Soda Basin is near Mexican Hat. There is a long point runs out to the north and the river comes from the basin around this point and on one side of the next is Mexican Hat and on the east side is Soda Basin. We were placer mining above the neck in the basin. When I took trips up the river I would take my supplies in my boat. In the spring of 1905, when high waters started, along in March, Jim Joe wanted his boat and I took it up to him. 4457 I obtained another boat. I went to Bluff and bought materials and 643 |