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Show 1019 they shot off a lot; that is what they tell me." R. 2410. Complainant's Exhibit No. 407 shows exactly the same thing as complainant's Exhibit No. 406. Cross Examination. ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2410- 2445) On his first trip on the San Juan River there were two sixteen foot boats, three men in one boat and two men in the other. Supplies were purchased for the trip by someone other than himself, in bluff, and the boats and supplies were taken to the neighborhood of John's Canyon on the river, a distance of about sixty miles below Chinle Creek. the trip was made in July or August during the low stage of water. R. 2410- 2411. In was between August, 1894 and May, 1895 that he saw Al Rogers, Bill Clark, and another man named Clark, at the mouth of Slick Horn Canyon when he and George Edmundson made a trip from Indian Farms to Copper Canyon. These men were old acquaintances of his from Colorado and they were placer miners. They came into the San Juan on burros and did not come down the river from Colorado in boats. R. 2412. He does not remember whether he took his own boat or the boat belonging to the men mentioned down through the canyon to Copper Canyon. One of the three men who located at Slick Horn accompanied him on the trip and that is the only trip he made down to Copper Canyon in a boat at the time. R. 2413. The trip with the party from Slick Horn commenced at the five to seven miles further down the river. On the trip from Bluff to the Honaker Trail, he had no supplies in his boat. The others had some bacon, beans, coffee, flour, a few blankets, no tools. They had their beds and tools down at the camp. |