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Show Record about a mile to my trading post on the west bank of the river. And the Indians came over across the country from the San Juan region on some trail and I took the boat across the river to bring the Indians and their merchandise over, and then I would take them back with the supplies they bought. That trading post was in active operation by me for about six months. After that a 4962 fellow named Johnny Newby who watched the dredge and operated it some. I sent out the goods that I got from the Indians usually by Wilson Creek. I took them down the river in a boat to Wilson Creek. A. L. Chaffin testified for defendant on re- direct 4963 examination as follows: At one time I took some supplies out by way of Hite. I took them up to the Olympia on the river and Bonnet took them out from there. He would go up as far as Good Hope by river. He might have gone on with packs from there. Newby operated the trading post one year, the latter part of 1905 and fore part of 1906. 4964 A. L. Chaffin testified on re- cross examination as follows: I had a kind of shack at this trading post on the west side of the river, a mile or mile and a half above Wilson Creek. I would go on up to the trading post, get the Indians across the river and take them back. During the time I was running the trading post I forded some of the Indians across the Colorado River to go out to the mountains to hunt. I have swum horses across the river at different points. I have never forded the 4965 river on foot. I have never crossed on horseback when I did not swim my horses. I never rode a horse across the Colorado River. We used horses on the Moquie bar, Olympia bar, California bar and at Red Canyon. We got our horses over to Red Canyon by putting a rope on the horse's neck and a loop on his nose and led him into deep 736 1857 |