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Show 389 gerous , the hillsides being covered with ice at ( the- the ) time . . Inaccessible to the river or to the ( country country- country ) going from Aloab into the country down the ( river- river ) They were trying to get down to this structure to start operations ; they had a very short time in which to do it , due to the fact they had contracts . requiring them to start on a certain date . . Picture No . 2 is taken from this notch , and looks down on the Colorado river , and on the many square . miles of Bad Lands on both sides of the river . . The notch ( he lie ) means is the notch he referred to in the first place ; the old trail , he has called it . ( R . 1343-1344 . ) Photograph No . 6 is a picture of the country dropping off one thousand feet , and this lower land extends clear to the junction [ of the Green and Colorado Rivers ] . ( R . 1345 . ) There are no roads south of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad in the ( pie-shaped pieshaped ) section between the Colorado and Green Rivers and at the present time he knows of no proposed roads in that section . ( R . . 1347 . ) There are no roads south , adjacent to the Colorado River from and on the same side as ( ivloab IvIoab ) . . No roads approached the river closer than ten to fifteen miles on the east ; there are several roads that start out at ( Moab Afoab ) towards the ( south- south ) east , , and branches turn off ( coming coining ) down on the ( di- di ) vides between streams , so they come within fifteen miles of the Colorado river , but none go to the river . ( R . . 1348 . . ) |