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Show 3,41.8 They were located on Montezuma Creek , San Juan County , about twelve or fifteen miles from the San Juan River . ( R . 5472 . ) He ( doesn't doesnt ) know what quantities of ore are being shipped from any property in the vicinity of Bluff , but in the ten years that ( he lie ) has been there , there has always been ( some sonic ) mining for uranium and vanadium . The company that carried on these operations was the United States Uranium and Vanadium Company . At what is known as Little Indian , about fifty miles , he would say , from the San Juan River and about a like distance from the Colorado River , about three years ago , they employed about ( seventy- seventy ) five men in their operations in mining and refining ore . They ceased operations as he recollects in 1926 . ( R . 5473 . ) He knows of the dry farming in the San Juan country , and has dry farmed himself , and until recent years the principal crop has been wheat and oats and some corn , but the last two or three years they have been growing beans and potatoes on rather a large scale , and the ground seems particularly suitable for these crops . He has known of three hundred bushels of potatoes that have been raised to the acre , and he knows from his . own experience that they can grow as many as two hundred bushels to the acre on the dry farms most ( anywhere aAy-where aAywhere ) in that region . ( R . 5474-5475 . ) ( ( Complainant's Complainants ) Exhibit 638 , pages 613 to 648 , ( in- in ) ( clusive elusive ) , of a document known as Professional Paper 11 entitled ( "The The ) Ore Deposits of Utah " Washington , , , |