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Show 549 Clines." R. 1339- 1340. He is familiar with that part of the country that lies immediately south of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad and on the east bank of the Green River. " Q Just describe that particular section. " A The country is rather a high plateau, dis-sected by streams or run off. " The erosion on the west side of this, however, is much less abrupt than on the east side. It is a country of sand rocks or sandstones, as we call them, and shales. The shales are soft, leaving the harder sandstones standing out as ridges or cliffs through-out the area. On the top, and even on the west side, there are certain areas in which wild grass will grow." and cattle could grass on this wild grass between the Green and Colorado Rivers. R. 1340- 1341. " As you approach a point about twenty- five miles, or twenty- eight miles above the confluence of the two streams, the country suddenly breaks off, drops a thousand feet in elevation, and you have a barren area which continues clear down to the confluence of the two rivers. That is the condition you find between the two rivers." R. 1341. The upper strip of this pie- shaped plateau is one thousand feed higher than the lower stretch." The lower twenty- five miles breaks off and drops a thousand |