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Show Record there and 5 or 6 or 7 people. The town marked on the map as Goodrich is the same as Mexican Hat. There is no other town in that country West of Bluff. I do not know of any other families 460 living in there West of Bluff. Jens Nielsen testified on recross examination as follows: The stores furnish the boats to the Indians to ferry across at Bluff. I do not believe the Indians had any boats of their own. The Indians would cross anywhere along there for about a mile. The Indians would bring their supplies across in those boats - flour, bacon and whatever they used. They would bring over in those boats blankets, wool and watever they had to sell. Some-times they had trouble in getting across and sometimes they did not. They had trouble sometimes when the river was high. Sometimes when I am on one of my freighting trips I have trouble with my outfit and sometimes I do not. A. L. Raplee testified for complainant on direct examination as follow: 461 I am 75 years old. I live at Bluff, Utah, now. Down in that country I have been placer mining and drilling oil wells and 462 one thing and another. I have been in that country since 1893. I have been on the San Juan River in a boat. I could not say how many times but I have been on the river quite a lot. For about 3 years there I used to cross the river every day in a boat from camp to where we were mining. The placer mines are located at Mexican Hat, right below the monument of Mexican Hat on the edge of the river. We worked the ground out as deep as we could go with the water and then we would have to cav and start another cutting. We had a water wheel there that pumped water to sluice with. We had copper plates to catch the gold on. That equipment was brought 463 down there on a wagon from Rico, Colorado. I spent 3 years at the placer mines. I got some of my supplies form the Coop Store in Bluff. Some of them I had freighted in from Durango. From Bluff I took some of my supplies down to the placer mines on a wagon and some of - 65- |