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Show - 26- GT: What about a sheep? DL: Oh, sheep, maybe $ 2.50. GTP Two- fifty. DL: Um hum. GT: What would a good horse have brought at that time? DL: They didn't try to buy horses, you know, but I don't knox- 7 xAat the price of the horses. GT: So they were paying 25 to 50 cents a head for cattle? DL: No, sheep. No, they was more, maybe a dollar or a dollar something. But they didn't buy no cattle. GT: Oh, they didn't. Just sheep. DL: Just sheep and horses. GT: Sheep and horses. DL: Um hum. FO: Did the Paiutes and the Navajos need all those horses they had down there. DL: No. But they still do that. FO: They have too many? DL: The Navajos, they want to have stock, you know, but there's no grass, no water, no nothing. But after this I. was talking to a Navajo from ? . FO: Here in San Juan County, you know, with the Mormon ranchers up here, did you ever see them overgraze like that? They're pretty careful? DL: Well, on the outfit when I was x> 7orking they trespass horses, you know, but that's on Dry Mesa, that's north side of ? Mountain. |