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Show 211 ALBERT P. BLAKE For complainant ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 517- 522) He resides at Farmington, New Mexico, and is 49 years of age. As his professions he has followed Indian trading, farming and merchanting. He is familiar with the San Juan River at Farmington [ New Mexico] and has made one trip down the river to Bluff and Goodrich. At Farmington the San Juan River is sometimes real high and other times read low and when it in low there is very little water in the river. R. 517- 518. He has carried on trade with the Indians but has never known them to use boats on the river. He has crossed the river by fording with a wagon, by wading it, and crossed it at one time dry shod. These crossings were made about one hundred fifty miles above Bluff, Utah. R518- 519. He obtained supplies from Farmington and from Gallup, New Mexico. Supplies were never brought in or sent out by a boat on the San Juan River, and he has never operated a boat on the San Juan River. R. 519- 520. Cross Examination ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 520- 522) On his trip from Farmington to Bluff and Goodrich he went down the river overland, the road being right close to the river, at no place was the road over two miles from the river. He can not give the year in which he crossed the San Juan River dry shod. R. 521. |