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Show 677 Montezuma comes into the San Juan River about fifteen miles above Bluff. He has been back and forth through Utah so many times, he doesn't remember the exact dates, but he knows he was in there prospecting in 1900 and 1902; also knows he was in there in 1898 at Bluff and Mexican Hat. R. 1623- 1624. When he was in the locality in 1898, he had stock in below what they called John's Canyon. They wintered stock in there and he was down there gathering up the remnants of the bunch. Following that expedition he was in there again in 1900 with Hrdlicki from the American Museum. Went in to get plaster cast measurements of the Piute Indians. He went in to Bluff and out to Allen Canyon that lies north of Bluff, and the crossed the San Juan River four or five times before that above Bluff in the Farmington Country, between Benito and Farmington, New Mexico. R. 1625. He didn't cross the river when he was in with Hrdlicki below Bluff, but crossed the river with him at Farmington, New Mexico. In The fall of the same year, he was back in the locality prospecting, looking for a lost mine that was called the Mitchell and Merrick Mine. He crossed the San Juan River at the mouth of Comb Wash and went through to the Oljato District and up to Nokai. He just looked for |