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Show Atflic preswittime ( lie he ) 116 believes thepopulation is a , ( little Jittle ) less than one hundred . When he first went in there there were about two hundred but they ( didn't didnt ) all stay in Bluff . They came in the [ wagon ] train . He believes ( there tliere ) were about ( forty-five fortyfive ) men but ( lie be ) ( doesn't doesnt ) ( know kuow ) how many ( women -women women ) and children stayed . The largest number in the town of Bluff between the time he got there and the present time is between one hundred fifty and two hundred . It was soon after they landed there . ( R . 577-578 . ) Those that did not stay at Bluff ; a great ( many inally ) of them ( didn't didnt ) intend to stay on the river , at all ; they took advantage of the company coming through there , thinking they had a nearer route from ( Ne- Ne ) vada and around the country through to Colorado ; some of the settlers went on to Arizona that ( same saine ) spring he got in there . ( R . ( 578 0578 ) . ) JOHN ADAMS For Complainant ( Record , vol . 3 , pp . ( 421-42S 42142S ) ) He resides at Blanding , Utah , age 63 years , sheepman . Went to San Juan County , landed on the San Juan River about April 1 , 1882 . He was first engaged in the cattle business and ranged stock between Bluff , Utah , and the Colorado River , and covered practically all of the country between the ( 110th 110tb ) meridian and the Colorado River , north of the San Juan as far as the Grand . |