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count of the short growing season resulting from the high altitude 
but the land is extensively used for grazing purposes. In former 
days it was doubtless a favorite hunting ground for the Indians, 
judging from the number of broken arrow-heads found in the 
vicinity. It is still frequented by deer, mountain-sheep and other 
forms of wild game. A comparatively short dam is all that is 
necessary to convert this beautiful park into a great natural 
reservoir and this is now being considered. The water which 
Fic. 40. A mountainside near Geneva Park, from which the trees have been 
stripped and used for lumber. 
could be stored in such a reservoir would serve to irrigate an 
immense area on the plains below where agricultural work can 
be carried on only by means of irrigat 
The standing timber, which consists ay of coniferous trees 
(spruces, firs and pines), is not as large as would be expected in the 
canyons visited by us, but this is probably due to the fact that 
the larger and better trees have been cut down and used for 
lumber. Numerous sawmills have been operated in Geneva 
Creek Canyon and in places the ruins of the old mills and the 
mountainsides covered with rotting logs and charred stumps 
are all that remain to tell the story of wasted resources. In 
