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Show Record I am Indian trader and oil man. I came into the San Juan country in 1878. My father started a store at Farmington, 688 New Mexico, at the Four Corners and at Spencers Mesa, about 30 miles above Bluff, until 1884. I moved to Mexican Hat in 1908 in the oil business and trading with the Indians. I was personally interested in drilling oil wells. I drilled 16 wells down there. 689 I have land there yet. I did not bring any supplies in by boat. I have merely ferried across the San Juan River. Complainant's exhibit 100, containing photographs of certain sections of the San Juan river from Bluff to Nokai Canyon, numbered from 1 to 28, inclusive, was received. 690 The photographs were taken by me. The photograph marked 1 is what we call Big Goose Neck, about 28 miles west of Bluff and 2 miles north of Honaker trail. It is typical of the San Juan canyon from the time it leaves Good-rich except in a place or two. Photograph number 2 is the old steel bridge at Goodrich. 691 It was washed out in 1911. The road that appears on the left hand side goes on out to Moonlight and all through the southern district. It is on the south side of the river. Photograph number 3 is the Goose Neck just a mile below the Mendenhall goose neck. There are 6 or 7 goose necks in there. Photograph number 4 is looking up the river from number 2 goose neck to the Mendenhall goose neck. Photograph number 5 is just a cross section of the same goose neck. Photograph number 6 was taken at the mouth of Comb wash in 692 June, 1912. I just took the photographs for curiosity's sake. Photograph number 7 is a Navajo crossing the river at the mouth of Moonlight. Photograph number 8 is the flood water coming in at the 693 mouth of Gypsum Creek at Goodrich; just a picture of one of the big muddy floods we have taken where the old steel bridge was. |