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Show Hyde- D 630 and Monticello. A. Most of this country I have been speaking of, for ten miles each side of the river, from Shiprock down to the mouth of Chinle wash, can be irrigated. Q. And if irrigated is susceptible of cultivation? A. The finest piece of farming soil you ever saw in any country, without an exception. Q. And if irrigated and cultivated would support a population? A. A very large one. It would take lots of money to irrigate it, but it could be done; it is fessible. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q. THERE is not any such land beyond Bluff between there and the Colorado? A. Between Bluff and the Colorado there is nothing. I think I am safe in saying there is not a thing that could be irrigated nor farmed if it were irrigated. Q. What is this place they call Piute Farms? A. That is in a canyon out towards Navajo mountain on the reservation ground; it is not the reservation itself, west of the one hundred and tenth meridian, in what the President of the United States has jurisdiction to open and close. Q. On which side of the San Juan river? A. On the south side. MR. BLACKMAR: That is all, Mr. Hyde. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I don't went to interrupt, but while on that subject, the 2598 |