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UTAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 43 
On account of its topography and drainage system 
the Jurassic of this region is of little value to agricul- 
turists. 
Unfairly, it would seem, an otherwise fertile soil has 
been deprived of a most important assistant, water. The 
soil is not to blame for the barren condition in which it is 
found. Plenty of water is at hand, but it is hemmed in 
by walls that are from one thousand to five thousand feet 
high. Several small villages have sprung up along the 
larger rivers where their otherwise narrow channels have 
widened out for a short distance, also at places along their 
courses before they enter their deep gorges. If this land 
is ever reclaimed it will be through the assistance of 
artesian water, as is being done at Bluff City at present. 
Through my studies in this district I reached the conclusion 
that the Jurassic sandstone acts as a large conduit and 
conducts the water that it absorbs at its upturned edges 
along the Uinta Mountains, Rocky Mountains, La Sal and 
the other localities in that portion of the state, to the 
many points where it is cut by the deeper canyons, and 
there issues out as the best water to be found throughout 
southeastern Utah. 
