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Show 45 -- 42-- living there within 10 miles of the river. He knows of no houses or dwellings outside of those where the old oil wells had been built. They are not inhabited. R. 109. He has been to the town called Mexican Hat in the San Juan Valley several times. It consists of a trading post and one family, aside from the trading post, at the present time. Mexican Hat is also known by the name of Goodrich, and they are one and the same at the present time. They were differentiated at the time of the oil excitement twenty years ago, but are not now. R. 110. Aside from a few Indians, and the trading post and one family, at Mexican Hat or Goodrich, there are three families, and one man dry farming, between the mouth of Chinle Creek and the Colorado River in the San Juan country, in an area of 800 to 1000 square miles. R. 110. He has been down the Colorado River in a 16 to 18 foot boat with an Evinrude outboard motor, from Moab, 28 miles, to the oil well. R. 110. At another time he was in one of the Moab Garage Company boats, which was perhaps slightly larger than that boat. " When we went down the first time we did not know anything about the channel, and we were continually running on sandbars and dodging rocks and jumping overboard and poling the boat over the riffles. Upstream - well, going both ways - we would operate it with a man sitting on the bow constantly, trying to pick the channel; sometimes he would pick it and sometimes he would not. We would jump overboard, or fall off, when we got stuck. " Q How about the second trip? |