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Show Hyde- D 603 low water at Moab you would cross it with water touching your horse's belly or the cattle's belly' high water, had to do some swimming; start them in above the ford and they would hit the ford and come out. Daily mail crossed over there; we would go from Moab Horseback and get in the mail rig and cross on the ford. Q In point of time when was Moab established with reference to your settlement at Montezuma? A I think Moab was settled there by a family or two and a nigger, a colored man; I don't know, - three or four years after. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Three or four years after you first went there? A Three or four years after we settled at San Juan. I am giving these dates only on my best recollection; I don't know whether I am exactly right. Q At all events, your settlement was before Moab? A We were before Moab was settled. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Do you recall the first year you were at Greenriver, Utah? A No, I don't; I had probably got to be a boy eighteen or twenty years old then. Q Do you recall when Greenriver was established with reference to the time you came into Montezuma? A No; Greenriver was established when I first got there, that's all I know about it. THE SPECIAL MASTER: When was the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad put through there? 2571 |