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Show Record from them. I had 5 oil permits on the river. They are located at the mouth of Lion Creek down as far as the bridge West from Chinle Creek. There are a great many other oil structures on the San Juan, a way back from the river 10 or 12 miles, besides those covered by my permits. Mine are not the only ones located on the river bed, there are others. There is one joining my ground on the East and one on the West and there are others still farther down the stream. There are some big oil seeps down in the canyon but you cannot get anything down there in the way of drilling. The oil structures extend approximately 35 miles below my permits to Slick Horn Canyon. 482 It is about 20 miles from Slick Horn Canyon to the confluence. Slick Horn is a steep canyon. There have been a number of oil lo-cations made along there. It has all been taken up. At the mouth of Slick Horn Canyon a well was drilled about 20 years ago. The oil structures extend practically all along the river bed there, clear down to the confluence with the Colorado, and then extend North and South and also South of the San Juan on the upland coun-try. 483 A. L. Raplee, testified on re- direct examination as follows: I had trouble running my water wheel down there some seasons, and other seasons would not have any. Some seasons the river would to down pretty low and some seasons it would get down so low and we could run right along then. That would not occur very often. I remember seeing the San Juan River dry. I cannot remember the year. The night before I rode up the river channel and back 6 or 7 miles above Bluff and the next morning the flood came down 484 about daylight. I was alone. I knew a man by the name of Zonn. His brother- in- law rode a horse up the river bed about the same time. He came from Zonn's camp about 75 miles down below where I was. When this flood came down it washed out my water wheel. It 485 was not the same year that my house was washed down the river. That was in October, 1911, I think. My house was located at - 69- |