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Show 675 This trail was built by the Honakers, who were placer mining on the San Juan River. It starts about eight or nine miles below Mexican Hat, and extends from the rim down to the San Juan River. R. 1619. He also knows the Mendenhall Trail which is located between Honaker Trail and Mexican Hat. He has been over this trail down over what they call the Goosenecks. R. 1619- 1620. In the country west of Bluff, these are no settlers or ranchers except over in the Moonlight District, near the Monument Valley where there are five or six ranchers who have trading stores and small bunches of sheep. This district is located about eighteen miles south of the San Juan River. There have never been any other ranchers in this locality or any other settlers, except the oil men in and around Goodrich and the placer miners along the river. There is a trading store at Goodrich, but the land on which it is located is owned by some [ oil company] and not by the operators of the store. He is also familiar with the country between the San Juan River and the Colorado River and has been on one trip from Bluff to Greenriver [ Utah] in 1910. That was his first trip through there. R. 1620- 1621. Cross Examination: ( R. Vol. 9, pp. 1621- 1645.) If he desired to go from Bluff to the Colorado he wouldn't travel close to the river. The roads would |