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Show Record to grounding. Hugh D. Miser testified on re- direct examination as follows: On the trip that Mr. Spencer and I made up the stream to Spencer Camp, we left the mouth of Piute Creek on Sunday, September 25, 1921, and reached Spencer Camp the next day, September 26. On September 27th we left Spencer Camp and returned to the mouth of Piute Creek. Complainant here calls attention to Exhibit No. 95, page 3791 148, stream flow record for the year 1921, San Juan River. At the place called " Piute Farms", the wide channel of the river is bordered on the east by open country, characterized by a series of gravel- floored terraces, with narrow valleys cutting through those terraces. On the west side of the river there is a " bad land" country and some high cliffs. Immediately adjacent to the river at Piute Farms, there was in 1921, a considerable area of willows and one cottonwood. There is evidence that a little tract of land, not exceeding a fraction of a acre, had once been under cultivation. That is all the evidence of cultivation that I saw there in 1921. No people were living there and no cross were planted. The boats were taken out of the river at the 13- foot rapids the day we reached the rapids, and they were carried down stream and put into the water again at the lower end of the rapids when we started down stream. When I speak of the east bank of the stream at Piute 3792 Farms I am referring to the left bank going down. The river turns in a southerly direction there. We had some maps on that trip but 3793 they were so erroneous that we could use them but very little. In my report I have a section devoted to archeology and I speak of there being from time to time cliff dwellings down along the river. They are reached from the river. We reached them from the river. These particular dwellings are in alcoves in the vertical canyon walls, so it was necessary to reach them from the 540 |
