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Show 696 CLINTON NEAL COTTON For Complainant ( R. Vol. 9, pp. 1674- 1677) He lives at Gallup, New Mexico, is over seventy years old, has lived at Gallup nearly forty years, and lived ten years on the reservation at Genavo. The sections of the San Juan River, with which he is familiar, are from Shiprock to Blanco. He has driven by it and has seen that section of the river off and on during the past fifteen years. R. 1774- 1775. Prior to that time, he hadn't seen any part of the San Juan River, as there was a very bad road there then, it was hard traveling and very few people came in from the San Juan River. Some came in with apples and other produce, loaded up with merchandise to take back to the San Juan Country. There had been a trading post established on the reservation in about 1877, he went there in about 1884 or 1885, and got his supplies, which came in overland from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trading post was probably seventy miles from the San Juan River. After that, supplies came in to Gallup or Manulite, located twenty- two miles west of Gallup. After he was on the reservation for ten years, he went to Gallup, established a wholesale house, put in supplies and furnished the people that lived on the reservation. R. 1675- 1676. In his knowledge the Navajo Indians, during that |