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Show 594 Hyde- D me for about ten minutes. ( Recess.) ( Last question and last answer read, as follows:) " Q. Did you establish a residence there? " A. Yes sir, we built a fort there; there were ten or eleven families, some in there, some came right directly after we got there; built a fort, what we call a fort, log cabins in a square, and established and went to farming and settled down. " My father built a store and went to trading with the Indians." Q How soon did you go to work yourself? A Well, sir, as long back as I can remember I always worked. SPECIAL MASTER: A little louder, Mr. witness. A I say, I always worked, as far back as i can remember. children worked these days. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Well, soon after you get there did you go into the cattle business? A No, we did not. Q How soon after you got there did you commence to go out on the range in the country west of Bluff, Utah? A We were not living in Bluff, Utah; we were fifteen miles above, where we first settled; we lived up there for possible three of four years, and my father put in a water wheel. The river then, when we moved into that country, was confined in a permanent channel, more so than it is now. There 2562 |
