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Show Record marked defendant's Exhibit No. 15, is just south of Bluff City on the San Juan River. The men in the picture were placer miners and they were all going down the river in those boats. It was taken in the nineties sometime. Defendant's Exhibit No. 15, being photograph of the San Juan River near Bluff, was received in evidence. 4517 I saw the men shown in the picture on the river. After the boom was over, every winter as a rule the placer miners would come down from the high mountains in Colorado and placer mine while they were there. 4519 I have seen quite a bit of San Juan gold and have accepted it in the store in payment for goods. It was in the form of a retort, they called it. It was in a solid piece, melted. In trading with the miners we accepted their gold retorts in lieu of cash. Anna M. Bayles testified on cross examination as follows: 4520 While I was there at the store I do not remember of any merchandise being shipped in on the San Juan River from either 4521 above or below Bluff. Our shipping point was from Durango, Colorado. We had good horses. We later got merchandise from Thompson Springs that was brought over by team. 4522 Some of those placer miners had burros. I could not say whether they had horses or mules. 4523 Anna A. Thompson testified for defendant on direct examination as follows: 4524 I reside in Salt Lake City. I lived in Bluff, Utah, practically all my life up to about 1907. I am 45 years old. I moved away from Bluff about 1907. 4525 While I was in Bluff I worked a clerk in Adams' Store and sold goods to miners many times. I have knowledge of boats being built for miners at Bluff. There was a carpenter's bench at the back of my mother's 654 1775 |