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Show Record I ranged the territory south of the San Juan River, from a spring called Huckatoo to Copper Canyon. The other time I crossed the river on horseback and with wagon. I crossed at Chinle mostly with wagon, that is, where the road crossed before there was a bridge. I happened to cross there in taking an oil rig down for some men drilling for oil at Huckatoo Spring. At the time I crossed the river at Moon Light in a boat, I had taken a young man down there to work with the miners. My father was running a hotel at Cortez and this young man came there and hired me to take him down. We went horseback. The miners were camped on the north side of the river. We came to it on the south side. They had a boat there and told me to leave our horses on our side and they would come over in boat and get us. 4386 Besides the other times mentioned by me I crossed the river just above Mexican Hat once. There was a bunch of cows that went across the river and wintered on Mr. Raplee's place on the river. We crossed in May to get them. In crossing we took our 4387 saddles off and our clothes off and the horses had to swim a part of the way. I do not recall any other times right now. I am fifty years old. H. C. Perkins testified for defendant on direct examination 4388 as follows: I am 44. I am a brother of the Mr. Perkins who just left the witness stand. I reside at Blanding, Utah. I am in the sheep business now. Have been in the cattle business mostly. In following my sheep and cattle business I have become 4389 familiar with the country west and northwest of Bluff, and also with the country from Hole- In- The- Rock up to Elk Ridge. Hole- In- The- Rock is a place on the Colorado where the old settlers used to cross on their way to Bluff. The country for 20 miles east of Hole- In- The- Rock is splendid grazing land; then as you get near the Elk Ridge it is 630 |