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Wash, then crossing a series of canyons and ridges, then over a 
desert plain, saints by Hatch Wash, where the stages from 
Moab and Monticello meet. On this road, there is a stretch of 
over forty miles a country with no human habitation, except the 
stage owner's log cabin at Cain’s Spring and a tent in the canyon 
where the road began to ascend the plateau on which Monticello 
is situated. In this tent lived an old man who took care of the 
animals at the station where the a changed horses in the 
afternoon. The ection made o e road was meager. 
few plants were eee up at fe station and a few along the 
road where the driver was willing to stop. 
Monticello is situated on a high plateau, at an altitude of 
7,000 feet, seven miles east of Abajo Mountains. Some of the 
land around the town is irrigated from the branches of Monte- 
zuma River, and a small portion is under ‘‘dry farming,” but a 
good deal is lying idle. The mesa is mostly covered with sage- 
brush and towards the mountains and where it is more broken 
or sags with scrub-oaks, hawthorn, ea Sea Cercocarpus, etc. 
Most of the land could be used for far The state has an 
oe farm at Verdure, about six ae south of Monti- 
cello, and here were raised in 1910 under ‘‘dry farming” forty 
bushels of wheat to the acre. If we should judge from the rain- 
We stayed five days at Monticello this time, but had only one 
good day’s collecting. On two other days we were out an hour 
or two between rains. It was very hard to take care of our 
sae for there was little chance of drying our papers. 
ind was nearly always from the southwest and the rain began 
to fall as soon as the clouds struck the Abajo Mountains, we 
thought that if we were on the west side of those mountains, 
we would be out of the rain-belt. We, therefore, decided to 
make the trip to the Elk*Mountains, which are situated west 
of the Abajo Seencre We had intended to work the latter 
first and go to the Elk Mountains later. We rented two saddle- 
horses and four panes Of the latter our guide rode one and 
the other three were packed with our tent, bedding, provisions, 
presses and other baggage. We found one of them too old an 
