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Show Butt- C 557 Q I don't care what causes it. You stated on your direct examination it was at low water. You just now spoke about other occasions when it was higher water. A I have forded it hundreds of times. Q Now, calling your attention to those occasions when you forded it on this government expedition, as I understood your testimony it was that in fording the river on that occasion you swam the horses part of the way and at other places the river was up to their knees. Is that correct? A Not on that trip, no sir, that is not correct. I have done it on lots of occasions, but not on that special trip. Q I misunderstood you, then, in my notes; because I took it down in my notes when you were describing that particular trip. A I didn't mean it that way, if I said it. Q Now, many times your boys have pulled these hundreds of mired cattle out of the river -- A Out of Montezuma Creek canyon, not the river. I have pulled them out of the river, but my cattle was running on Montezuma creek, that enters the tributary to San Juan river. Q Then these cattle you have described about your boys hauling out by the horn of a saddle did not get into San Juan river. Q Then these cattle you have described about your boys hauling out by the horn of a saddle did not get into San Juan river, at all? A No, it was on this side of the San Juan,-- it was on one of the tributaries. Q Now, you saw this river frozen over once, did you? A Yes sir, I did 2523 |
