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699 had to patch up as they went along. They settled about two miles up the San Juan River from the mouth of Montezuma Wash and his father opened a trading poet there. After he resided there about two and a half years, the river cut the bottoms out all through where they were living, took their cultivated land away, washed it down the river and they moved down to the mouth of Comb Wash where his father continued to trade with the Indians. He helped in the store at the trading post and ran livestock in the country, both sheep and cattle, he, personally, looking after them. R. 1631. He has been practically all over the country west of Bluff, Utah, between the Colorado and the San Juan Rivers, lived continually in the locality from 1880 until 1911 and has been back practically every year since. After he first went there, the merchandise that was sold in the store was first hauled from Alamosa, Colorado. The railroad later went into Arboles, New Mexico, later to Durango, Colorado, where they got their goods, and they also made several trips to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for goods. They took in a small stock at first from Salt Lake City, but never purchased goods from Salt Lake after that. R. 1682. When he was in that country his father never received any goods by way of the San Juan River in boats, nor did he ever ship shipped anything out by boats. Later on, he got supplies from Thompson, Utah, that is, after he quit the trading business. The settlers |
