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Show 3288 Dobbin- D 1313 Moab crosses the bridge across Green river? MR. FARNSWORTH: Going down or up? A You mean immediately across from the town of Greenriver? BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Yes. A No, I have not been over that particular stretch right in there in detail. 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. A We left Greenriver in Dodge trucks, and started south, on the west side of Green river; we started out on a truck from the town, fair road,-- and within a few miles we had to find out track in wind- blown sand; we practically shoveled out way through wind- blown sand south for a mileage distance of ninety miles, to where the Texas Company drilled that well at the head of the Elaterite Basin. The high lands on the divide are composed of wind-blown and continually shifting, and the streams are cut almost straight down, with the valleys bordered by those horizontal sandstones which form precipitous and inaccessible escarpments. The topography is practically the same as on the east side of the river, the rocks being the same age, the same strata, and being horizontal, so the type of erosion |