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Show Record 1619 animal. I am familiar with the Honaker and Mendenhall trails. 1620 The only people who ever resided in the country along the San Juan River below Bluff, aside from the oil men and placer miners who have been in there, are at the trading store at Mexican Hat. I visited Moab and Green River, Utah, in 1910. John Wetherill testified on cross examination as follows: 1621 One desiring to go from Bluff to the Colorado River by land would be compelled to follow one of two roads, towit, a road to the north and away from the San Juan River at varying distances, or a similar road to the south of that river, and the travel would not be close to the river. Either of these roads would be very winding roads, avoiding difficulties in the topography of the country. I was born in Kansas and came to Mancos, Colorado, when 1622 I was 14 years old, making that my home until 1900. During that period I spent tow winters at some ruins located in a gulch up Chinle Wash. There are ruins on the San Juan near Bluff and at various times we worked in those ruins and at ruins at Grand Gulch, about forty miles below Bluff, which we reached by pack train. I don't remember the next time I had occasion to be in Utah, but in 1894 and 1896 I was at McElmo on Montezuma Creek, 1624 located about twenty- five miles above Bluff. In 1898 I went to Bluff and Mexican Hat, because we had stock at Johns Canyon, and 1625 I went there to gather up the remnants of the bunch. I don't remember whether I had occasion to cross the San Juan on that trip. I again was in Utah in 1900, going to Bluff and from there out to Allen Canyon, north of Bluff, and had occasion to cross the San Juan four or five times near Bonito and Farmington, New Mexico; but I did not have occasion to cross the river at Bluff on that trip. 1626 Later in that fall I was in Utah prospecting for a lost mine and 1627 crossed the San Juan at the mouth of Comb Wash. I was at the river at the mouth of Copper Canyon and at Mule Ears, just below Chinle 1628 Creek. I crossed the San Juan on that trip at Mule Ears Crossing, 212 |