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Frem the village of Nathrop the traveler, on looking back to 
the east, may obtain a good idea of the kind of country the granite 
makes somes distance back from the main drainage 
Nathrop. 
lines. It forms a plateau or table-land that rises 
Elevation 7,696 feet. from 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the level of the valley. 
Population 196.* 
Denver 233 miles 
This plateau is probably a remnant of a once 
rolling surface that extended over most of the. 
mountain country and that has been described as a peneplain. 
ments of the law as to what consti- 
tutes a claim 
When an ecto for mineral 
patent is now received for a piece of 
land in a national forest the land is 
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tion of other than mineral land under 
the mining laws as well as the whole- 
sale location of timber by an indi- 
vidual or company to the detriment 
of the lone prospector 
Particular Sttction is given by the 
Forest Service to the preservation and 
protection of timber in regions where 
it may be needed for prospecting and 
mining. A prospector can obtain tim- 
ber to dev Sede his claim from the na- 
is 
sufficient timber for its exploitation 
as mineral land should mineral de- 
posits he found on it. 
Roads, trails, and telephone lines are 
built by ms Government through na- 
ts to make them accessible 
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sistance he is able to render in report- 
ing fires or the misuse of forest prop- 
erty. Very little of the timber, h 
ngpa 
e Sopris ean Forest, 
and fh the Eagle River country, in 
on freight cars at Mitchell, Pando, 
Red de of 
Cliff, 0: other si 
Continental Divi are destined for 
e Leadville m 
ile forests aha Leadville 
composed almost anied of easel 
pine (see Pl. XX I, B), and the city 
oe in the pee ate of the zone of 
this tree. The veler will note the 
large unas a young trees scattered 
over stump areas or areas in W 
thout opening, 
though the seed continues fertile. In 
this way large quantities of fertile seed 
accumulate on the trees, so 
is scattering the fire may have been so 
severe that it burned up a large num- 
ber of the cones, or favorable weather 
