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Show 239 to do some swimming and daily mail crossed there. Moab was settled two or three years after the San Juan country was settled. Greenriver was established when he first went there when he was a boy eighteen or twenty years old. R. 602- 603. The San Juan River was never used for the purpose of shipping in supplies with boats. He knows of an instance or two where people came down there with a little bacon and a bed; just as light as they possibly could. He paid a cent and a half and two cents a pound freight to have goods hauled from Durango, and later, from Thompson Springs. He looked into the possibility of boating stuff on the river at times but always decided it was impossible. Motion to strike Vol. 4 - p. 605; affirmed Vol. 4 - p. 604.) " Q. At any rate, you investigated bringing supplies down on the river? " A. Yes, we did. " Q. And you never at any time did it? " A. We never did it." R. 605. Never saw any boats on the river except ferry boats, skiffs, little flat- bottomed boats, twelve feet long. They lost lots of them in high water. They very often made three or four during the season to ferry Indians across. R. 605- 606 " Q. You referred to some boats coming down, bringing a little bacon. " A. When the placer miners were in there, some of them had no way of getting down to look at the bars; some of them built little bits of boats of this kind, and went down. |