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Show 267 ARTHUR H. SPENCER For Complainant ( R. Vol. 4 - pp. 687- 719.) He resides at Denver, Colorado. He is an oil man and Indian Trader, and went to San Juan County, landing on the San Juan River in 1878, when he was a boy. His father started an Indian trading post and then moved to San Louis Valley, Fort Garland, Colorado. The family settled first at Farmington then Four Corners, and later at Mancos. The store on the San Juan was kept until 1884. His education was as a mechanical engineer, but he is also an oil driller. He has been down the San Juan River many times. In 1908 he moved into Mexican Hat and engaged in drilling for oil and trading with the Indians. He located some oil claims which he still holds. His supplies and equipment were hauled down the river by pack outfit and bull team. R. 687- 688. He did not take any of his supplies down the river by boat and has been on the San Juan River in a boat only to cross it. R. 688. Exhibit number 100 offered in evidence. Volume 4 - p. 689. During his stay on the San Juan River he took twenty eight pictures included in exhibit number 100, which represent the stream below Bluff, Utah. These pictures were taken during different months of different years and represent different stages of water, and the nature of the canyons. R. 689. Photograph marked number 1 is the Big Goose Neck twenty eight miles west of Bluff and two miles north of the Honaker Trail. |
