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Show Hyde- C 633 A Long enough to put in a ferry and build some houses, store house. Q And approximately how long was that? A I would say he was probably there six or eight or ten months. Q You would say you were about fifteen years old when you went down there to Rincon to live? A Probably; not hardly, - maybe somewhere around there. Q You were born in 1869, I take it? A No, I was born in 1870; I am sixty years old next May. Q That is right. My addition is wrong. So that it would be around about 1885 when you went down to Rincon to live? A 1883; say I was ten when I got there, that would be 1880-- yes, around 1883 or 1885, I recbon; something like that. Q Have you ever personally engaged in farming to any extent? A Yes, I have. Q How long did you operate a trading post there at Rinoon? A My father? Q No, you. A I never did, individually; my father run a post there, and he left, as I said, and my brother- in- law and brother and myself continued on. My brother- in- law murdered by the Navajo Indians. Q You and your brothers, then, to operate this trading post about what year? A I don't know what year. Dad ran the store there for, I would say maybe two or three, or three or four years, before he was 2601 |