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Show 534 escarpments, narrow divides, very rough cap or buttes, mesas, spurs, pinnacles, needles, and other forms of erosion; a very inaccessible and rough country." R. 1316. There was a very good road, well traveled south to Monticello, " but the branch from that down Indian Creek was an old trail that led down to a ranch some miles, and from there the oil men had carried material into the oil wells over some trails they had made." R. 1316- 1317. These roads were recent. " We forded Indian creek sixteen times, and we had our engine and carburetor wrapped up in inner tubes to keep them from getting wet. " Below there, in the vicinity of the oil wells, we got there with the oar all right, but it was very tortuous trails, and in low gear and second gear, just maneuvered over the country at a very slow gait." R. 1317 Between the Green and Colorado Rivers " I saw nobody living except one man living on the road, the main traveled road north of Moab, right beside the road, and then there is a ranch at Valley City. " Both are on the main road north from Moab. " Those are the only people I saw." R. 1317. He saw nobody living in the area on the west side of Green River. " I understand there is a ranch or two on the river, but we didn't get down to the |