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Show 532 " 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 our truck in wind- blown sand; we practically shoveled our 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 sand continually shifting, and the streams are out almost straight down, with the valleys bordered by those horizontal sandstones which form precipitous and inaccessible escarpments. [ R. 1313] " 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 in that country of which you ask 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 Creek oil structure." R. 1313- 1314. That is not down near Hanksville" we were directly west of the junction of the Green and the Grand rivers -- the Green and Colorado, I should say." R. 1314 He has never been to Hanksville. He was about ten or twelve miles west of the junction of the two rivers; " and then we went down over an escarpment, and walked east; I would say we walked east six or |