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Show 166 KUMEN JONES For Complainant ( R. Vol. 3 -- pp. 362- 420) He resides at Blanding, Utah, is 73 years of age. He is a cattleman and has lived in Blanding and vicinity from 1879 to the present time. He migrated to San Juan County from Cedar city, Iron County, Utah, in 1879. He first left Cedar City, Iron County, with on exploration party of twenty two in the spring of 1879, travelling easterly over what is now the road to Grand Can you, crossing the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, then proceeding north- easterly,[ crossing the San Juan River at the present location of Bluff.] The party then proceeded northerly to Blue Mountain [ near the present site of Monticello, Utah;] thence to Moab, Utah, crossing the Grand River at that point, thence north- easterly to the present site of Greenriver, Utah, crossing the Green River just above the present site of the Green River bridge. They then proceeded south- westerly and returned to Cedar City where they organized a colonization party. R. 362- 364. In October 1879 the party consisting of two hundred odd persons left Cedar City with Eighty- two wagons and traveled easterly, crossing the Colorado River at the Hole- in- the- Rock they proceeded to the present site of Bluff, making a good road all the way and established the town. R. 364. He has travelled overland up the San Juan River from Bluff, a distance of one hundred miles and down the river as far as its confluence with the Colorado. R. 366. |
