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Show Record I was in business with him until 2 years ago. I am running a store by myself now. I am not so awfully familiar with the San Juan River. I have been familiar with it for the past 5 or 6 years between 525 Shiprock and the mouth of Largo. I have never been to Bluff. I have never been to the Four Corners. I have done business with the Navajo Indians. The Indians do not own any boats that I know of. Our freight comes into Farmington over the D. & R. G. I run a store at Farmington now. George E. Blake testified on cross examination as follows: 526 The rails run right into Farmington. I have never selected a water course in preference to the rails. Jack Martin testified for complainant on direct examination as follows: I live at Farmington, New Mexico. I went there in 1890. 527 I am 75 years old. I am running a little farm there now but I have been for the last 30 years with the Archaeologists and Geologists out there in that desert country up and down the rivers. ( Here defendant made objection to the relevancy and competency of evidence or testimony about conditions in New Mexico at a point far removed from the sector in question and reserved the right to object to its admission) 528 I am familiar with those portions of the San Jan River From Pine River, Largo, on down to about 18 miles below Shiprock, what is called Cudahy Crossing. I was down at Mexican Hat with the Reclamation Service but I had to go off the river and go out on the South side on the mesas and into Monumental Valley and then cross the river below Mexican Hat on a little bridge on the North side 529 to Bluff, and then we turned and went off into Colorado to Dolores. This is the only trip I was ever down that far. A Mr. Smith, a government employee, was with me. He joined me at Farmington. This was in 1916, I think. We proceeded from Farmington to Bluff by team. We did not attempt any part of the journey by boat. We - 78- 1194 |