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Show 374 ( tanee ttince ) , of ( ninety iiiiiety ) miles , to where the Texas Company drilled that well at the head of ( the tbe ) Elaterite Basin . . The high lands on the divide are composed ( of" of of' of ) ( wind-blown windblown ) sand continually shifting , and ( the- the ) streams are cut almost straight down , with the ( val- val ) leys bordered by those horizontal sandstones which form precipitous and inaccessible escarpments . . . ( R . 1313 . ) The topography is practically the same as on ( the- the ) east side of the river , the rocks being the same age , the same strata , and being horizontal , so the type . of erosion in that country is the same over a wide * area . There is no folding of the strata except on the river where the two oil wells were drilled , the * ( Kane K'ane Kane ) Creek oil structure . ( R . 1314 . ) That is not down near Hanksville ; they were ( di-- di ) rectly west of the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers . ( R . 1314 . ) He has never been to Hanksville . He was about ten or twelve miles west of the junction of the ( two- two ) rivers ; and then went down over an escarpment , and walked east ; they walked east six or seven miles - that day . ( R . 1314 , 1315 . ) They entered that country about ( the fhe ) first day of May and stayed there . . until the first of October , 1926 . ( R . 1315 . ) The vegetation in that country , except on the divide between the major streams , was very sparse . Not being an agriculturalist , he can not give the names of the different types of * grasses , but in the |