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Show 207 lived at Jewett right on the river during that time. Jewett is about eighty miles up the river from Bluff, Utah, in San Juan County, New Mexico, R. 503- 505. He was first in San Juan County, Utah, about twenty five years ago when freighted in there from Delores. He freighted from Bluff and the oil fields below Bluff City. He doesn't believe there has been a year since he left Jewett, New Mexico, that he hasn't been in San Juan County. He went after stock or on a round- up and he would occasionally cross the San Juan River either on the Navajo reservation, in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico both above and below the four corners. R. 505- 506. He would probably have occasion to go down around the San Juan River in Utah probably once a year. It would be different times of the year, not always in the winter or summer. He would always cross the river unless he was going out on the reservation after stock. He believes he has been over on the Navajo Reservation three different times and each time crossed the river going and coming on horseback and not on the bridge. R. 507- 508. He has travelled over the old road from Cortez to Bluff many times each ear before he moved to Mexican Hat. The old road in right along the side of the river from Nekimo Creek to Bluff, a distance of about twenty- five miles. He crossed the river at least once a year on horseback and has been over the road at least twenty times. The road was discernible at all times and he used this road for freighting in and out of Bluff. At places where the road crossed the low lands where the water would over- flow, the tracks might be obliterated. |