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Show 679 " Q. You didn't go into the river at all on that trip. " A. Yes, we crossed it." R. 1639. The ford at the Hule's Ears Crossing is washed out at the present time. You can't get across with a wagon. On this trip he was accompanied by his father-in- law, his brother, and two other men by the name of Clark and Frank Lime. They had some pack stock with them, and his brother and two of the others were riding horseback. R. 1630. His father- in- law and himself drove through the river in their buggy, and on that trip, they crossed over and back. The next occasion that he was in Utah was in 1906, when he came down the San Juan River from Anarth, and went on down below Bluff and crossed the river again at Hule's Ears, went on out to Oljato and out in a stock of goods to trade with the Navajo Indians. R. 1631. This trading post was about eighteen miles south of San Juan River and he arrived there on the 17th of March, 1906, and left there in December, 1910. During the time he ran this trading poet, he get his supplies from Mancos and Durango, Colorado, and some from Gallup, New Mexico. He had timber hauled for a house. He didn't do the hauling himself, but had a man driving a team, He was there numerous times along the San Juan River and had occasion at intervals to cross |