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Show Record I was there during the latter part of the spring high 4498 water season. The water was going down. We worked the bars that were convenient to the water's edge, and as the water want down, we followed down on the bar. On our trip in the boat from Mexican Hat to Honaker trail we encountered a number of rapids. I do not think we got any additional supplies from Bluff while I was there. I did not see any pack trains come down the Honaker trail to bring supplies to the places miners. 4499 The irrigated farm land around Monticello is assessed at about $ 50.00 an acre and the dry farm land about $ 10 an acre. The irrigated farm land around Bluff, while I was assessor, was assessed at about $ 50.00 an acre. There is very little dry farming around Bluff. I have done dry farming myself over a considerable period 4500 of time. I was assessor from 1908 to 1920. The value I have given would fairly represent the values for the years 1920. I have cleared land myself around Monticello and it cost about $ 6.00 an acre. In the operation of dry farming we do not get a crop every year off the same land. We summer fallow. When we plant a crop its 4501 success depends very much on the rain fall. You can dry farm with 15 inches rain fall, but to make it profitable you ought to have 20 inches. There have been years lately that we have not had 15 in-ches of rain fall in the San Juan country. It is not true ordinarily that is that country we get a great amount of precipitation in a very short space of time. We consider an inch or inch and a half rain a big rain. I left Monticell in 1923, and there were a few dry farms over there which had been cleared and abandoned. I do not know that they were abandoned. Some people had moved away to different parts of the country and their farms were not being operated at that time. In the Monticello country we have grazing lands, and the assessed valuation generally was $ 2.50 an acre. |