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Show 11. tha function of the Duahesae, V.hite and Oreen ittvors. Transportation:- One of the greatest disadvantages Cf tha Uintah Baaia ia its look of transport at I en facilities. Price, Utah, on the Dourer & Hio orande HMlrosd, eighty miles south of iiyton, and Helper on the same road SO milea southwest of iiyton are tha aeareat rail-road point3. The Uintah Hail-way, a nsrrew-gage road, enters the Baain on the east at- 'sataoa, Utah, si_x_y mil9a from J?t. Duchesne. This road conneeta -nith the Denver $» Hio Grande at Haoi In Colorado. Physiogra-Dhyr- She Uintah Basin is a very bread, shallow *o synoline that ia a topographic aa -well aa a structural basin,, * • bounded on tha north by tha Uintah mountain uplift; on the south by the southward facing Hoan Cliff; on the veai. "by £feo vTasatch mountains, and on the east by the Bangely Dome and the related structural features of northwestern Colorado*, The >*• *-' floor of tha Basin la broian bj several Immense butt as or plateaus whioh separate the several rivers draining tho vallay. The elevation varioo from 5,000 feat above 3of- loval „joar the oentnx of the Baoin to 7,000 feet it the banc of the mountains. Thia abrupt rise in compariti'joly a faw miles inducea a stoop slope in tho vallay lands. Uearly every variety of soil ia found in tin Basin, varying from a sandy lcam to a tenacious day. iiorao of the best , '* tioll occurs on the top of the plateaus, thioh ara extensively |
