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Show Record on government land. I believe I was then nineteen. In 1902 we cut partly on public domain. We cut in 1902 and a part of 1903 in the public domain because there was no United States forest district in there until about 1903. All of this lumber was not cut on land owned by the United States. We had our own land. We bought a section of timber from the State of Utah. We cut on that land between 1903 and 1909. Outside of that one section all 4723 the lumber that we cut up there was on lands of the United States. During 1894 to the fall of 1897, when we cut lumber on the mountains not close enough to the river to use it we did not raft. In 1897 we sold lumber to the Cashin mine at Paradox, Colorado. About 75 percent went to that mine and 25 percent to 4724 Moab. In 1903 practically all of our lumber went to Moab. The 4725 same in 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1908. We sold most all of our lumber in the Moab section, Grand and San Juan Counties. In San Juan County we sold it to the Big Indian Mining Company and the Indian Creek Cattle Company on the south end of the LaSal Moun- 4726 tains. That was around 1900. We sold none in San Juan County during the years 1903 to 1909. When we were rafting we sold all 4727 of the lumber in the Grand County district. Our first mill was about a five thousand mill capacity per day, a portable mill. Our next mill, when we put in a full crew, when we needed it, we could get thirty thousand a day. We got our thirty thousand mill about 1905 or 1906. The lumber was yellow pine and white spruce. Within the rafts we never got in riffles. We got stuck 4728 on blind rocks or submerged rocks. That was just once in a while. We would hit those at all stages of water. It was not a common occurrence. We never had any trouble with the rafts getting stuck in the mud or on the sand bars. We had difficulty with the mud getting in between the boards, which made the raft heavier and |