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Show Record year round. That is the only one I know of. Albert P. Blake testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: 518 I am 49 years old. I live at Farmington, New Mexico. I came with my father into that country in 1888. I have been an Indian trader and merchant and am at present farming. I am familiar with the San Juan River near Farmington. I have made just one trip to Bluff City or to Goodrich below Bluff. The Indians have not used boats on the river to my knowledge. At Farmington the San Juan River is sometimes real high and sometimes it is real 519 low. I have crossed it at low water and walked across it dry shod. 520 When I was out on the Reservation I got my supplies from Gallup. I never got any supplies in there and never sent any out by boat. I have never operated a boat on the river. Albert P. Blake testified on cross examination as follows: I went down the San Juan from Farmington to Goodrich below Bluff. I went clear down the river to Goodrich. I went close 521 to the river. The occasion I walked across the river at Farmington dry shod. I cold not say in what year it was, but it was the year, whenever it was, that the river went dry. All the old- time residents remember there was one such occasion. I went into the trading business in 1910. I left the Reservation country in 1919. I carried a general merchandise stock for the Indians. I had wagons. If I 523 had had an order for supplies to be sent down the river to the lacer mines I would have sent it by wagon. They would drive down the river. There is a road all the way on the North bank. I do not know how long the road has been there but I think there was a road there in 1919. I know it was there. I saw it. George E. Blake testified for complainant on direct 524 examination as follows: I am 44. I live at Farmington, New Mexico. I am a merchant. I am brother of the Mr. Blake who just left the stand. - 77- 1193 |