OCR Text |
Show Butt- D 551 wagon? A Yes sir. Q Did you use horse teams, or mule or ox teams? A Both; some people come with ox teams; most of them was horse and mule team; there was a few ox team come through in 1879 and 1880, that winter. Q Do you remember in the year 1883 or 1884 riding up and down the San Juan river on horseback? A Hundreds of times I did it, I guess. Q Do you mean you rode in the river bed, that the water was low? A I have done that also, after the land got washed away, with our wagons we would cross around over the mesas joining the river on the north side, when it was safe, wasn't too high, we would go horseback up on the old road, maybe; in 1879 it was washed away, you couldn't go with a wagon, and we went horse back when we went up that way. Q Have you been down to the Hole- in- the- Rock recently? A I have not. Q For how many years? A Been thirty years, anyway Q Have you been in that country that you traversed when you were coming up from Hole- in- the- Rock? A Not recently. Q Have you ever run cattle in that country in there? A I have; the boys and I together; the boys done most of the riding on Comb wash, near Mexican Hat, only on the opposite side 2517 |