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arable land from which irrigable tracts may be selected; an abundance of 
fuel in the pimon pines and cedars of the foot hills; and building timber 
farther back on the mountains and plateaus. 
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The whole amount of irrigable land is estimated at 280,320 acres. 
THE CANON LANDS. 
South of the Tavaputs highlands, and east and south of the High 
Plateaus, the Canon Lands of Utah are found. The lower course of the 
Grand, the lower course of the Green, and a large section of the Colorado 
cuts through them, and the streams that head in the High Plateaus run 
across them. All the rivers, all the creeks, all the brooks, run in deep 
gorges—narrow, winding canons, with their floors far below the general 
surface of the country. Many long lines of cliffs are found separating 
higher from lower districts. The hills are bad lands and alcove lands. 
The Sierra la Sal and Henry Mountains are great masses of lava, 
wrapped in sedimentary beds, which are cut with many dikes. South of 
the High Plateaus great numbers of cinder cones are found. 
On the Grand River there are some patches of land which can be 
served by the waters of that river. On the Green, in what is known as 
Gunnison Valley, patches of good land can be selected and redeemed by 
the waters of that river. 
Castle Valley is abruptly walled on the west, north, and northeast by 
towering cliffs. Kast of its southern portion a region of towers, buttes, 
crags, and rocklands is found, known as the San Rafael Swell. In this 
valley there is a large amount of good land, and the numerous streams 
which run across it can all be used in irrigation. Farther south, on the 
Fremont, Escalante, and Paria, some small tracts of irrigable land are 
found, and on the Kanab and Virgin there are limited areas which can be 
used for agricultural purposes. But all that portion of the canon country 
south of Castle Valley and westward to the Beaver Dam Mountains is 
exceedingly desolate; naked rocks are found, refusing footmg even to 
dwarfed cedars and pinon pines; the springs are infrequent and yield no 
bountiful supply of water; its patches of grass land are widely scattered, and 
it has but little value for agricultural purposes. 
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