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Show Record camp at No. 2 Well in his outboard motor and at other times our supplies would be unloaded on the left- hand side of the river at No. 1 Well, from which point they would be brought to us by pack train. I have crossed the Colorado river almost alway in an 2745 outboard motor boat and have never forded the stream. I saw Mr. Yundt's party ford it, and we have forded our pack animals across, turning them loose and having them swim the river while we 2746 crossed with a row boat. I later had a camp lower down and about three miles from the river. At that camp we obtained our supplies by truck, wagons and pack train via Indian Creek, some of the supplies coming from Monticello and some from Moab. There is a trail that doesn't follow the river from Moab to Lockhart and we packed over it. I have been on the rim of the canyon between Moab and Lockhart on both sides of the river; there are no inhabitants in that section and it is very rough, broken and ledgy, the land being used principally for winter grazing. Charles F. Moore testified on cross examination as follows: 2747 Our San Juan River survey started on there range line 17 and is east, which has approximately at the west boundary line of 2748 the Navajo Indian Reservation, and we surveyed thence westerly. It is public domain west of the Navajo Reservation, as I understand it. When I was on the San Juan River the only camp I had 2749 close to the river was near the mouth of Nokai Canyon; that was our main camp and we had another camp two miles up from the mouth of Plute Canyon, supplies being taken there overland from 2750 Nokai Canyon. we had several camps and delivered supplies to all of them from our camp at Nokai Canyon, located maybe two or three hundred yards from the river. We took supplies to our camp at Copper Canyon by wagon and truck, some of which came from Bluff, some from Kayenta, and some from the Moonlight trading post. The Copper Canyon camp was located about two miles back 2752 from the rim. I recall no occasion when supplies were taken up 2753 the river in boats. In the lower section our survey barely crossed |