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Show 698 ERNEST B. HYDE For Complainant ( R. Vol. 9, pp. 1678- 1705) He is sixty- four years old, was born in Salt Lake City, at the present time is temporarily located at Long Beach, California, although he claims residence in Salt Lake City, Utah, and most of his life has been spent on the San Juan River or near the San Juan River in San Juan County, Utah. R. 1678. He went to the San Juan Country in 1880, when he was fourteen years old, from Salt Lake City by team and wagon to Escalante, Utah, across the Escalante Desert to the Colorado River, which he crossed in a flat boat some thirty feet long, at what is known as Hole- in- the- Rock, the same place that has also been called in the trial, " Hole- in- the- Wall." A man by the name of Hall was running a ferry at this place. R. 1679. He accompanied his father and mother and their family, had six wagons and teams, ferried the stock across the river on the boat, and after they got on the east side they continued on through Bluff to the mouth of Montezuma Canyon. R. 1680. His brother, Frank Hyde, was a member of the party and they proceeded to Montezuma on the north side of the San Juan River. R. 1680. There was a kind of a road through there that they |
