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Show 248 between Bluff and Monticello. " A. Most of this country I have been speaking of, for ten miles each side of the river, from Shiprock down to the mouth of Chinle wash, can be irrigated. " Q. And if irrigated is susceptible of cultivation? " A. The finest piece of farming soil you ever saw in any country, without an exception. " Q. And if irrigated and cultivated would support a population? " A. A very large one. It would take lots of money to irrigate it, but it could be done; it is feasible. " BY MR. BLACKMAR: " Q. There is not any such land beyond Bluff between there and the Colorado? " A. Between Bluff and the Colorado there is nothing. I think I am safe in saying there is not a thing that could be irrigated, nor farmed if it were irrigated. " Q. What is the place they call Picture Farms? " A. That is in a canyon out towards Navajo Mountain on the reservation ground; it is not the reservation itself, west of the one hundred and tenth meridian, in what the President of the United States has jurisdiction to open and close. " Q. On which side of the San Juan River? " A. On the South side." R. 629- 630. There is a great deal of land on the Navajo Reservation that is suitable to irrigation. This land that is suit-able of irrigation is on the south side of the river from Chinle Creek up in places to Shiprock, New Mexico, |
