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Show 189 JENS NIELSEN For Complainant ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 441- 449.) He resides at Blanding, Utah, and is 66 years of age. He is a farmer and stock raiser. He has lived in Blanding and vicinity since the spring of 1880 and is acquainted with land between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, west of Bluff. The country is rough, barren and desolate. R. 440- 441. When he first went into the San Juan country, supplies were brought in by wagon and pack animals from Santa Fe to Mexico and Alamosa, Colorado, and later on from Durango, Colorado, and Thompson, Utah. R. 441. He saw boats on the San Juan River in 1890 that came down the river from Farmington, New Mexico, and went on down to Mexican Hat. Boats were carrying food supplies for miners and prospectors who were operating there. There were no regular supply boats into Bluff, - just used for individual prospectors. Boats never went back up the river. R. 442- 443. " Q. Why not? " A. Well, they couldn't get back up, bad no way of pulling them back; high water took them down, they couldn't get back up without being towed up." R. 443. He freighted merchandise into Bluff and to Moab from Thompson Springs, Utah, and from Burango, Colorado, by team and wagon for many years. He also freighted supplies down to the placer mine below Goodrich on the San Juan River. He believes the placer mines are about twenty miles up the river from the mouth of the San Juan River but had never been down to the mouth |
