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Show 5461 Mendenhall- D 3471 can recall, I would like to know the condition of the water through the Piute farms at the time your expedition went through. A There is not any water through Piute Farms. It is on the little Nugget creek tributary. Q About Piute Farms, isn't there an open space through which the San Juan river runs? A Just has its channel through sand down through there; that channel changes, of course. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q What is the Piute Farm? A It is a little space probably as large as this build-ing, shore the Indians, the Navajos now plant their crops of corn and pumpkins and watermelons and such things as they raise, and they raise it by sub- irrigation; they don't irrigate it, at all. Perhaps half a mile from the river, in a little valley that runs down Nugget creek. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Nugget creek runs down into the San Juan? A Yes sir. Q And near the mouth of Nugget creek what kind of |