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Show 202 WILLIAM J. WALKER For Complainant ( R. Vol. S - pp. 490- 496.) He resides at Kirtland, New Mexico. He is 55 years of age and is a merchant. Kirtland is located on the San Juan River. He has lived there since June 1896. The country is used irrigation water at the present time taken from the Animus River Formerly it had been taken from the San Juan River. In 1902 in order to get the water to their crops. The period of dryness lasted about two weeks and was during the month of August. This experience occurred in the valley of Fruitland. Kirtland he would judge is in the neighbor hood of fifty miles above Bluff. R. 490- 492. He believes there are no perennial streams running into the San Juan River between Fruitland and Chinle Creek. Only small skiffs or boats are used on the San Juan River, in 1911 he had such a small boat, similar to those owned by other traders, that he used to row supplies across the river. He has done freighting in the country adjacent to Fruitland but never had freight come in by way of the San Juan River, not did he freight it out by way of the river. Supplies into Fruitland are brought from Farmington and Gallup, New Mexico, by wagon. R. 492- 493. Cross Examination ( R. vol. 3 - pp. 493- 495.) Several skiffs were used fro trading with the Indians back and forth across the river. The Indians usually brought pelts across the river and traded for foodstuffs. The skiffs were eight or ten feet long, four feet wide, flat bottoms. R. 495 |
