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Show ( TliG The ) imim is located on tbeniap 120 . asbdiug Aoutlen ( miles ardies ) northeast of ( GoodriGli Goodrich ) at ( tho the ) and of ( Gedar Cedar ) Ridge . ( R 439-440 . ) JENS ( NIELSEN NIELSEN' NIELSEN ) , r For Complainant ( Record vol . : ! , pp . ( 441-JOO 441JOO 441-460 ) ) 3Je resides at Blaiiding , ( Utah Utall ) , and is 66 years of . age . He is a farmer and stock raiser . He has lived in ( Blaiiding Blanding ) ( and aud ) vicinity since the spring of 1880 and is acquainted with land between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers , west of Bluff . The country is rough , barren and desolate . ( R , . 440- 441 . ) When ( he lie ) first went into the San Juan country , supplies were brought in by wagon and pack animals from Santa Fe , New Mexico and Alamosa , Colorado , and later on ( from froin ) Durango , Colorado , and Thompson , Utah . ( ( R 11 ) . 441 . ) ( He FIe ) saw boats on the San ( Juan Juau ) River ( in iii ) ( 1890 -1890 ) that came down the river from ( Farming-ton Farmington Faxinington ) , New ( Mexico Alexico ) ( and aud ) went on down to Mexican Hat . Boats , were carrying food supplies for ( miners iiiiiiers ) and ( pros- pros ) pectors who were operating there . There were ( 110 no ) regular supply boats into ( Bluff-just Bluffjust ) used for individual prospectors . Boats never went back up the river . ( R . 442-443 . ) They ( couldn't couldnt ) get ( back bacllc ) , up , had no way of pulling them back ; ; ( high higli ) water took ( them thein ) . down 7 they ( couldn't couldnt ) get back . ( up lip ) without being towed up . ( R . 443 . ) |