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Show 531 Thompson is a little plant that I don't know the mans of. There was no grass to speak of on this area when I was in there, but the higher country to the southwest had, scrub junipers and some other grasses that I don't know the name of, but out southwest of Valley City, about the county line between Grant and San Juan counties, there is a small area on the divide between the Colorado and Green rivers,-- it is on the top of the divide -- that is called by the natives in that country the Big Flat; that is rolling, and has a crop of grass on it which in the winter is used by the natives for their cattle, a certain number. " The rest if the country bordering the Colorado river and the Green river is almost barren of any kind of vegetation, though I was told by my guide, in the winter time he pastures some cattle down there in those terrible Bad Lands. " R. 1311- 1312. He has not been over that area immediately across from the town of Greenriver, adjacent to the river bank of the Green River to a point where the road from Moab crosses the bridge across Green River. R. 1312- 1313. " Q. Let me have the same information with reference to the land which you have been over, on the west side of the Green river. |