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Show 170 ever since he first went into the country and in familiar with the country from Bluff, Utah, down to the Colorado River and he has seen most of it north to the Colorado River and has run cattle in there. There are not many in-habitants in the country and in the San Juan country on both sides of the San Juan River it is very rough and broken but there is good grazing on the benches when they have good season and is a good cattle and sheep country. R. 373. He knows of nobody living on the San Juan River rest of Bluff and it is uninhabited except with Indians who come on both sides of the river. Mexico Hat, he believes, during its boom days didn't have more than fifty men in it at its best and there are only two or three outfits there now. Between the San Juan and the Colorado River no one lives in that country except in cow camps. R. 374. During the early spring run- off and floods caused from cloudbursts, considerable debris and sand is carried down the river, R. 375. " Q. Have you ever seen send waves on the river? " A. Yes sir. " Q. How high? " A. Oh, four or five feet." R. 375. There are rapids on the San Juan River between Bluff and the Colorado River. R. 375. Cross Examination ( R. vol. 3- pp. 376- 403.) There are towns and people between Bluff and the town of Moab and he didn't say there weren't on direct examin-ation as he lived in Blanding himself and Blanding has a population of nine hundred or one thousand. |