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Show 668 raised in San Juan country Utah and he knows that the wool and other things that are raised in that country are shipped out by team. R. 1603. He is also familiar with the Colorado River in the vicinity of Vasey Trail, about twenty- five miles below the Bright Angel Trail, and then on up the Colorado to the junction of the Grand [ Colorado] and the Green River. R. 1603. He has never been on the Colorado River in a boat, except to put stock across the river, has only been along the banks and his purpose of going down into the Colorado River was acting as guide and taking parties, usually from the East, who wanted to see the country. He would pick us these parties at the Grand Canyon, Tuba City, Arizona, Mancos, Colorado, sometimes at Bluff, Utah, Gallup, New Mexico or Flagstaff, Arizona. The last party he took through was from Blanding, and he went along the Colorado River for fifty or sixty miles in May and June [ 1929] covering the Colorado River from the mouth of the San Juan River to White Canyon, following the rim of the river on the southeast. R. 1503- 1605. He took this party down from White Canyon to the mouth of the San Juan River and he has taken them down into the Canyon itself. There are only certain places where he could get down, but when he would come to these place, they would go down to the river, but the general travel was on the rim anywhere from five hundred |