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Show Record of wind- blown sand. The vegetation on this flat southwest of Thompson is a little plant that I do not know the name of. There was no grass to speak of on this area when I was in there. The higher country to the southwest has scrub junipers and some other grasses. Out southwest of Valley City there is a small area on the divide which the natives call Big Flat and has a crop of grass on it which in the winter is used by the natives for their cattle. The rest of 1313 the country bordering the Colorado River and the Green River is al-most barren of any kind of vegetation. On the West side of Greenriver we practically shovelled our way through wind- blown sand south for a distance of 90 miles. The high lands on the divide are composed of wind- blown sand con-tinually shifting. The topography is practically the same as on the east side of the river. I entered that country about the 1st day of May and stayed 1313 there until the 1st of October, 1926. The vegetation in there, except on the divides between the major streams, was very sparse. The section of the country I covered just east of the Colorado River and above the junction is a very inaccessible and 1316 rough country. There is a fairly good road, well traveled from 1317 Moab south to Monticello, but the branch from that down Indian Creek was an old trail. Between the Green and Colorado rivers I saw only one man living right beside the road and then the ranch at Valley City. On the west side of Greenriver I saw nobody living in there. I remember one ranch In Indian Creek. 1318 On my trip on the Colorado River from August 4th to 10th, 1926, we had a 16 foot boat with an out- board, six horse- power Evinrude motor, which drew a foot and a half of water, I would say. There were two of us in the trip and we had food for about a week. 1319 I had handled motor boats before. The purpose of our trip in going down the river was to examine rock sections and consequently we were in no hurry. We |