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the Gold Basin, in the central group of the La Sal Mountains. 
It is at an altitude of 10,000 feet. During out stay at this place, 
we collected for two days in the Gold Basin, two days in the 
spruce and aspen wocds along Brumley Creek and on the upper 
extensions of the mesa below, one day on the northern slope, 
mostly in Horse Gulch, and three days we climbed the moun- 
tains above timber-line. The picture (fig. 37) shows the up- 
per part of Gold Basin. In the foreground the timber-line is 
Fic. 37. Upper part of Gold Basin, La Sal Mountains, showing timber-line 
in the rerceiound and one of the peaks in the background. 
shown. In the basin itself the timber-line, on account of the 
eep snow, is much lower oe (about 10,500 feet) than it is on 
the ridges, where the sp d to 11,000 or a little higher. 
The flora of the spruce wood ae as well as the alpine vegeta- 
tion, was very similar to that of the Rockies in central and 
southern Colorado. In the La Sal Mountains there is much slide 
