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Show Record between Monticello and the State line is what we call our dry farm section. There are a few dry farmers there now. In that section from Monticello through to the State line and north and south the soil in very productive. As to the number of bushels of wheat to the acre grown there on the dry farms, I know only what I have grown. One year I threshed three fields of wheat. One field went 20 bushels, Another field forty bushels and 46 bushels to the acre. I think possibly the average of those is a little more than the average of other farmers. As to the area of that class of land in that country, I would say it is about 16 miles from Monticello to the 4415 State line, and my judgment would be that there is possibly 20 or 25 miles north and south of that character of ground. A very small percentage of that is being farmed at the present time. To the south of the area that I have just mentioned, there is tillable land. That land is lower. It is south and east of Blanding, right down to Montezuma Creek, on both sides, east and west, of Montezuma Creek. In that section of land west of Bluff, bounded on the west by the Colorado River and on the south by the San Juan River, there are some deep gulches running through, and then there are large mesas or flat country between those gulches. That is a winter range for cattle, a splendid winter range. I have gained some knowledge relative to the mineralized 4417 sections of the San Juan country. In the Blue Mountain country I know of the Duckett property on the west mountains. They worked it for gold. They ran a tunnel in about 30 feet. They are not doing any mill work there now. I could not say whether it is a free gold. It is in a ledge. I know of the Gold Queen property on the east side of the Blue Mountains. Then there was a mill built on the west side 4418 of the Blue Mountains. I don't recall the name of it now. It is still intact and has been used in recent years. It is a gold pro-perty. There are some other holdings on the north creek. The Emms |