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Show Record The equipment for oil wells was taken off the railroad at Durango and Dolores. If you wanted to float such equipment down the San Juan you would take it off of the railroad at Farm-ington, New Mexico. It would be practically impossible to take shipments across the country from Durango or Dolores to the San Juan River. 655 There are thousands of acres of the finest land you ever laid eyes on lying north of the San Juan River in San Juan County, Utah, which could be irrigated from the Dolores River. There is a great deal of very rich bottom land in the Montezuma wash and the side draws capable of irrigation by gravity flow from the Dolores River, that would support a very large population. 657 I was on the river when Mr. Raplee was placer mining. I was down to his worlings lots of times. There were other miners 658 working there below him. Mr. Raplee had been placer mining on 659 the San Juan a great many years. I think I got acquainted with 661 him in 1893. It was shortly after he came into that country. Mr. 663 Raplee purchased lots of goods from my store at Bluff. There have been times when I have personally seen 15 or 20 placer miners working on the portions of the river I have visited. 664 John J. Lumsden testified for complainant on direct exami-nation as follows: 665 I am 66. In 1905 I constructed a boat about 50 feet long, 16 to 18 feet wide, equipped with several cabins and a marine gaso-line engine. It drew 14 inches of water. The boat was built partly at Grand Junction, Colorado, and finished at Green River, Utah. It cost a little more than $ 15,000. It was launched about the 1st of May, 1905. It was named " City of Moab". I built the boat for 666 the purpose of hauling freight and passengers on the Green River from Green River, Utah, down to the Junction and then up the Color-ado River to Moab, Utah. After the boat was launched we made a trip, with a crew of probably 10 on board. We left Green River about 9 o'clock in the morning intending to go to Moab. We had - 102- |