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Show Record 438 There is a road part of the way. I travelled the road part of the way until I came to the trail and then went down the trail to the mine. This particular mine happened to be so located that it could be reached in that way. The road I spoke of is on the 439 North side. There is another road in that vicinity running from Bluff to Mexican Hat, over the Goodrich Bridge southwest of Moon-light Valley and then on to Flagstaff. It is about 20 miles from 440 the mine I have spoken of. The mine is located Northwest of Goodrich. Jens Nielsen testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live at Blanding, Utah. I have lived there 23 or 24 years. I have lived in the vicinity of Blanding since the spring of 1880. During that time my occupation has been farming, stock-raising, freighting, running after cattle and sheep. I am pretty well acquainted with the country between the San Juan and the 441 Colorado Rivers West of a line drawn through Bluff. I have been over it myself. My idea of the country is that it is a barren, desolate country. I am 66 years old. When I first went into that country my supplies were brought in mostly by wagon from Santa Fe, New Mexico and Alimosa. Later on the railroad went to Durango and then they came from there, and later from the railroad at 442 Thompson. During my time there I have known of supplies being brought in on the San Juan River by boat. There have been some boats down there from up around Farmington, New Mexico. They would load up their boats there, a few. I do not think there were many, but there have been boats go down the San Juan River about 100 miles. 443 They would come from Farmington to Bluff and on down to Mexican Hat. That was done in about 1890. They carried flour and bacon for the miners or mining prospectors. I never saw any boat line or anything I like that run, just individual prospectors. I did not see 444 those boats go back up the river. The high water took them down. |