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Show 688 SIMSLOW WETHERILL For Complainant ( R. Vol. 9 pp. 1653- 1660) He was born July 31, 1671, and now resides at Farmington, New Mexico, is a younger brother of John Wetherill, who has just previously testified, and is familiar with the country in and around the San Juan River from Bluff, Utah, up to Farmington, New Mexico. R. 1653. He has been along the bank of the river below Bluff, Utah, but not on the river because there was no way to travel up and down the river. R. 1654. ( Testimony ordered stricken out. R. Vol. 9 pp. 1654) He has been down the San Juan River some sixty or seventy miles below Bluff, where the river canyons up, to the foot of the Navajo mountains, going in there with a peek outfit from Fancos, Colorado, and also ran cattle in the San Juan Country around Farmington, New Mexico. At the time he was down on the San Juan River below Bluff, he was trapping for beaver and his work took him right along the river bank where it was open, because right in the canyon there wasn't any feed for beaver. R. 1654. On this trapping trip he was both above and below the mouth of Moonlight Creek and his trapping activities were right in the San Juan River, as he waded up and down the river to set out his traps. He was accompanied on this |
