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Show Record I have had difficulty in crossing the river in account of quick sand. I have pulled lots of cattle out of the quick sand. There are many sand bars in the San Juan River. They are formed at different places. 705 Arthur H. Spencer testified on cross examination as follows: The first year I freighted was in 1893 or 1894. My home at that time was Mancos, Colorado. I continued in that occupation 706 up until 1901. In 1893 I took some placer machines to Bluff and some lumber below Bluff. In 1894 I took a drill down for a placer outfit and brought it back. That was in the winter. I brought it 707 back in the spring. I have seen some water drilling operations 708 at Bluff. The equipment that I took to Bluff was for oil frilling. On my first freighting trip in there I started from Mancos, Colorado, with a drilling machine and left it at Bluff City. My next trip was lumber and I delivered at Zonn's camp, at the mouth of Nokai Canyon, about 75 miles west of Bluff, or about 30 miles on a straight line. We followed the road to Bluff City and on to Comb wash, where we crossed the river and from then on were on the South side of the 711 river. About a year elapsed between my first and second trips. My third freighting trip into that country was to the mouth of McElmo, on the San Juan river, about 35 miles East of Bluff. I only made the two trips to Bluff. All the balance of that period I was freighting 712 above Bluff. The only times I would go out West of Bluff was when I would go out in the Navajo mountains prospecting in the winter 713 to trade with the Indians. Both before and after 1908 I did some 714 prospecting at Copper canyon in the Navajo mountains, West of Bluff on the South side of the San Juan river. In 1908 I went to Bluff and lived there for 20 years, except I moved to Mexican Hat in 1914. I have a thousand pictures of that country in there and 715 probably more. I did not pick out the 28 pictures offered in evidence Mr. Payne for the government picked them out. Two pictures were produced showing the river at low water. I have other showing the river at low water. I don't care to pick out any of them. If you want to - 108- |