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Show Record above Mexican Hat, at Cables Camp in a boat and at the mouth of 4375 Comb Wash. I have been down the river at Copper Canyon, where there was a few Piutes, farming, on the bottoms. I don't know where they call that Piute Farms. Aside from the year the San Juan went dry, I would say in crossing the river at the places I crossed the same on horseback the water at some place in the channel came up near a horse's belly. That was in low water. 4376 At the time we crossed our cattle just above where the bridge now stands, which was usually in November when the water is quite low in the San Juan, it swum our horses and our cattle also. Even at Sand Island, the shallowest place, I do not remember crossing there when the water did not come up near a horse's belly. I have a little ranch at the head of Comb Wash, about 30 miles above the San Juan River. The country between my farm and the San Juan River are bottoms something similar to the one I had located 4377 at the head of Comb Wash. My farm is a homestead. There are about 60 acres actually under cultivation. The bottom land between my farm and the San Juan is very similar to my land. I would say there are there or four thousand across of land similar in character to my 4378 land between my farm and the mouth of Comb Wash. I have been west of Bluff as far as Clay Hill. In that country there are some big canyons that run through and there are quite large hills. In that country there is some very good grazing land down next to the river for stock. North of there, on the higher 4379 elevations, the land is adapted to dry farming. The grazing land extends from the river through the Elk Ridge. You see stock scattered through the timber there clear to the river. I have ridden through that country south of Elk Ridge referred to by Mr. Lyman. I wouldn't make any ostimate of the number of acres. I haven't given that much study. As near as I can tell, the character of the soil is similar to the soil around Blanding. They have some very good dry farms just north of Blanding. |