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Record William J. Walker testified for complainant on direct 490 examination as follows: I live at Kirtland, New Mexico. I am a little past 55 years. I am a merchant at Kirtland, New Mexico, at the present time. 491 Kirtland is about 50 miles above Bluff. It is on the San Juan River. I have been in and about San Juan River since the first of June, 1896, and have been along close to the river ever since. A general character of the country around Fruitland is farming and stock raising. It is an irrigated country. At the present time we get our water from the Animus River. We had been getting it from the San Juan. I have had experience with low water on the 492 San Juan, about 1902. I was looking after a short ditch. It was so dry I had to take scrapers and make a temporary dam across to get the water into the ditch. That continued about two weeks. neighborhood of Fruitland, which is about 50 miles from the point in dispute. I do no think there are any streams between Fruitland and Chinle Creek that run continuously into the San Juan. I have not seen any boats on the San Juan River except little skiffs that we used there. I had a little boat in 1911 like the other traders had, just for the Indians to row their supplies 493 over from our side of the river to the other side. I have engaged in quite a lot of freighting in that country. I never had any freight go up the San Juan River and I have not sent it down the river. We get our supplies for Fruitland from Farmington and Gallup, New Mexico. They are brought in by wagons and trucks. William J. Walker testified on cross examination as follows: Skiffs that I speak of were used for carrying supplies and freight that the Indians had over to the trading posts, and then for carrying the Indians and such things as they might buy at the trading post back on the other side of the river. The Indians - 71- 1187 |
