Bluff, Utah - San Juan County, Utah

San Juan County, Utah

The town of Bluff is the oldest settlement in San Juan county. Situated on the banks of the river of the same name it nestles in an enlarged delta between the bluffs through which the great San Juan flows, it is inhabited by well-to-do stockmen, who have taken advantage of the fertility of the soil to plant orchards and vinyards until it is an Eden to those seeing it for the first time after passing over the long weary miles of upland plains to reach there. Bluff has the largest per cent of fine residences of any town in the United States in proportion to the population of the place.

This little city while being famous as the first civilizing influence for the dusky red men of the southwest, is a center of trade to all of the contiguous

Indian tribes. Here the famous Navajo blanket is first brought for barter to the pale face, and the blood red ruby or more dusky garnet often find their way into the traders hands, brought there by aborigines- Bluff is also famous for its artesian wells, five of which have been driven, and sending their gushing waters to the surface have largely replaced the ditches from the river which originally gave life to the vegetation which helps so much to make the homes of the town the remark of travelers and the delight of its residents. The town is also the outfitting point for the great San Juan oil fields which lie to the south and west, and which according to the most learned geologists are destined to be one of the few remaining deep well oil fields to "be developed in the United States.