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Show The hearing was resumed at Denver, Colorado, on September Record 12, 1929. 362 Kumen Jones testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: My age is seventy- three. I reside at Blanding, Utah. I went into that country from Cedar City, Iron County, Utah, on June 1st, 1879. I traveled East and then Southeast up the Sevier River and across the country to National Park, crossing the Colorado River at Lees Ferry. We had twenty- two young follows in out party. We then proceeded on up to Bluff. We were on an exploring party, scouting about to see the country for places to locate. I spent 363 forty years around Bluff. On this trip we camped there about three months. From there we went North up Blue Mountain and through 364 Grand Valley and crossed over to Green River. We crossed the Colorado River right where Moab is now. There was no settlement at Moab then. There was a negro and Frenchman living in there. They irrigated just a small patch from a nice big stream. Then we went up the Green River, crossing it just where Green River City is now, and from there went Southwest to Cedar City. We again started out for the San Juan country in October, 1879 with 82 wagons and about 200 some- odd souls. We crossed the Colorado River at Whole- In- The- Rock, about 75 miles Northeast of 365 Lees Ferry or 6 miles North of where the San Juan empties into the Colorado. There was no city there, just a place on the river. After we crossed the Colorado River we were on the east side of the San Juan River. We then went to Bluff and established a settlement there. While we were at Bluff the Indians only used the river to cross it. I have been above Bluff on the San Juan River overland 366 100 miles. I have not traveled the river but I have crossed it in different places and been to it wherever you could get to it. The San Juan enters a canyon about 12 miles below Bluff. When we landed at Bluff the river from there on down was confined in comparatively a permanent channel, with cane and willows and cottonwood - 45- |