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Show Record 376 I did not say there were no towns or people living between Bluff and the Town of Moab except in cow camps. I lived at Blanding and that is between Bluff and Moab. Between 800 and 1000 people live at Blanding. Monticello is East of the Colorado River and South of Moab and in the section between Bluff and Moab. In that section there is the Town of LaSal, ranches and people living along the highway. San Juan County is a sparsely settled section compared 377 with sections in the last and other parts of the country. The population of San Juan County is somewhere near 4000. There are approximately 4000 people living in the section between Bluff and Moab East of the Colorado River and South of Moab and North of Bluff. The country looked pretty tough to me when I first went in 378 there but I know there was some pretty good country in there. The people that live in San Juan County are the same as people that live in other places. Most of them came there of their own free will and there is no law against their leaving if they want to. The country is undeveloped. There are vast areas of virgin country 379 that have received very little attention in the way of development, and are suitable to great developments. From my knowledge of that country I have no doubt that in the future, as the State grows, that section will be greatly developed, There is a great empire in there. As to its natural resources, I know nothing about the mineral. I am not a miner. There is a good deal of wonderfully good land in there for raising grain and crops. It is one of the best dry land countries in the world. San Juan County is a large county, one- seventh part of the State of Utah. All that part along the Colorado line for 20 or 25 miles wide is susceptible to development 380 to grain. There are large sections of excellent grazing land in there. The land gets pretty rough near the Colorado. I graze my cattle between Bluff and Blanding and on the Elk Mountains and Blue Mountains. I have never been up and down the Colorado River between its confluence with the Green River and its confluence with 381 the San Juan River. I have never been up and down the river. I |