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Show Record to Bluff by road; and about the same distance from Hole- in- the- 1652 Wall to Bluff by road. I can't give the distance by water. Winslow Wetherill testified for complainant on direct examination as follow: 1655 I live at Farmington, New Mexico; was born in 1871; and am a brother of John Wetherill. I am familiar with the San Juan country from Bluff, Utah, to Farmington, New Mexico, and 1654 from Farmington up as far as Blanco. I have never been on the river below Bluff but have been along the bank. I have been at a point sixty or seventy miles below Bluff and have been at the foot of Navajo Mountain, going by pack outfit. I trapped for beaver above and below the mouth of Moonlight on the San Juan and waded up and down the river to set out my traps; had to stay off the back to catch the beaver. I did this during one winter, and during that winter you could wade the stream most anywhere. I did it to set my traps. I was there on the river trapping for about six weeks. In 1900 or 1901 I recall that the San Juan was dry up in the neighborhood of Farmington, New Mexico. I have never seen anything 1657 but ferry boats on the San Juan River. I have seen sand waves at Farmington, and there is one place where you can see them most any spring there. I never had a horse on the San Juan below Bluff, but you can wade the river anywhere without getting in quicksand where I was. A man can walk across the quicksand where an animal can't. Louisa Wade Wetherill testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 1661 I am wife of John Wetherill and have been to Bluff, Utah, a good many times and have crossed the San Juan River between 1662 Farmington and Bluff something like tow hundred time. I have been down as far as Navajo mountain five or six times. We went to Navajo mountain in a car the last time, and the other times on horseback, with a pack outfit. In going to Navajo mountain 215 |