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Show 136 on my finger made out of San Juan gold ; the red stone in one of them is a San Juan garnet . The store , so far as I know , never received merchandise shipped via the river . ( R . . 4512-21 , Vol . 26 . ) Anna A . . ( Thompson Thoinpson ) testified : I am 45 years old and lived in Bluff until 1907 . When living there I clerked in ( Adams'store Adamsstore ) and many times sold goods to miners . I know that boats were built for miners at Bluff and taken down to the river close to Bluff . We would accept the gold ( "re- re ) ( torts" torts ) as payment for merchandise . My husband came down the San Juan River from Fruitland , New Mexico , in a boat about 1905 , and mother later sold that boat to a miner to take his supplies down the river from Bluff . I have forded the river on horseback several times and each time the horses swam and I got my feet wet every time I crossed . ( R . 4523-7 , Vol . 26 . ) ( It was stipulated that Mrs . Mary Jones , if called as a witness , would testify substantially the same as did Anna M . Bayles . R . 4529 , Vol . 26 . ) Zeke Johnson testified : In summer I act as guide and take parties to points along the Colorado and San Juan rivers ; I have done this since 1907 . ( I 1 ) spent most of four years on the San Juan River ; first went to the river in 1894 , at Copper Canyon . Then I saw the boat shown in Exhibit No . 16 at a point about a mile upstream from the mouth of Copper Canyon . Exhibit No . 16 was taken at the lower Gable Camp called ( Zahn's Zahns ) Camp . Copper Canyon is between 8 and 10 miles upstream from Gable Camp , so that the boat had been taken up the river from where I first saw it when this picture was taken . The boiler and engine loaded on to this boat weighed eight or ten thousand pounds , and I helped carry several hundred pounds of other material when the boat was unloaded above Copper Canyon . ( R . 4531-6 , , Vol . . 26 . ) While I was there I did a little rafting on the river up and down from Honaker Trail for two or three miles . . I saw other parties come down the river in boats carrying their supplies with them ; sometimes there would be two or three parties in a week , sometimes a party would pass every week or two , and at other times there would be five or six months elapse between parties . . ( R . 4537-8 , , Vol . . 26 . ) I have been on the San Juan River on boats at other points than I have mentioned and have been to the San Juan |