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Show Record a great trapper. He trapped up and down the San Juan River. He got lots of beaver. I have crossed the Colorado River at Dandy Crossing. We crossed in a boat but we swam the animals. 4594 When I crossed at Halls Crossing a German trapper, they called Meskin, took the wagon to pieces and took it across and he swam the cattle across. He lived in that section trapping up and down the river. C. L. Christensen testified on cross examination as follows: Rincon is 14 or 15 miles below Bluff down the river. Chinle Creek comes in just a little below. The store was on Comb Wash. There are no rapids between Bluff and that point. I did not encounter any sand bars. The boat was 16 feet long, 6 feet wide and the sides were 18 inch plank. When the boat was loaded the water came up on the sides 8 or 9 inches. I made the first trip when the Navajos were shearing, March or April, I would say. The second trip was made about two weeks later. From Rincon to Bluff we rode back in a wagon and took produce, wool and hides back to Bluff. The store at Rincon was a branch of the Bluff Co- op. B. H. Redd was superintendent at that time. The other supplies at the store at Rincon were brought down by wagon. When they would come down to take produce we had secured they would bring provisions down that way. The purpose of the store was to trade with the In-dians. We got from the Indians wool, pelts, hides and blankets mainly. We did not take them to Bluff in a boat because it was easier to take them up by team. We never took the boat back to Bluff. We used it at 4598 Rincon to cross the Indians forward and back. When I came down the second time we bought a new boat. We lost the other one. I did not get the flour or supplies wet in the sand waves. Everything was dry and fine. 4599 I lived in Arizona for a number of years. I went from 668 1787 |