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Show 3287 Dobbin- D 1312 proceed southwest from there you get into very rugged country, with high sandstone buttes, mesas, and cap rock, over which is deposited a loose and very thin deposit of wind- blown sand. There may be a deposit of sand in one place today, and not be there tomorrow. Q What about the vegetation on that? A The vegetation on this flat southwest of Thompson is a little plant that I don't know the name of. There was no grass to speak of on this area when I was in there, but the higher country to the southwest has scrub junipers and some other grasses that I don't know the name of, but out southwest of Valley City, about the country line between Grand and San Juan counties, there is a small area on the die 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 of 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. Q Have you been over that country immediately adjacent to the left bank of the Green river from a point where the road from |