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Show Butt- 563 A Didn't know that is was; I didn't and lits of other people didn't; I never seen none; didn't know what it looked like. REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q The productive country in that county is all east of a line run north and south through Bluff, isn't it? A Yes sir, it is, all that has been tried out, I guess that is about all that is suitable for cultivation also. Q You and your boys, as I understand it, have run cattle over in that country west of their? A Yes sir, cattle; we didn't have no farms. Q And nobody else had any farms? A No sir; west and north. Q There were no farms in there? A There was a fellow went in there and raised a few watermelons in the comb wash one year; that is all he raised, a few watermelons, and corn; but sometimes water would come down there and swipe everything off, from the Elk mountain, so it wasn't a profitable enterprise, and he quit. Q About how many Cattle could you to an acre in that country? A I don't know; there was a good many cow men in there at that time. 2529 |