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valley are wide areas of badlands, as shown in Plate XXII. These 
are developed by erosion in the soft sandy clays in the formation 
overlying the Shinarump conglomerate. 
North of Joseph City siding is the Mormon settlement of St. Joseph, 
where crops are raised by irrigation from the Little Colorado. To 
the south is an area of 800 acres irrigated from deep wells. These 
places are conspicuous green oases in a region where the gray desert 
aspect prevails. Along the Little Colorado Valley at intervals are 
cottonwood trees, some of them large and clustered in groves of con- 
siderable extent. — 
As the Little Colorado Valley widens near Manila and Hardy 
sidings, there appear to the north many mesas and slender pinnacles 
mee of igneous rock which rise high above the general 
anila, 
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Elevation 4,956 feet. 1: : : 
Kansas City 1,190 miles, MAY be discerned the cliff at the edge of an extensive 
mesa, which contains a large coal field that has not 
yet been developed. 
About 2 miles east of Winslow the railway crosses the Little Colo- 
rado, which here makes an abrupt turn to the north. A few miles 
farther west the river bends to the northwest to join Colorado River 
in the Grand Canyon at a point about 100 miles northwest of Winslow. 
The original name of this stream was Rio Lino (that is, Flax River), a 
distinctive name which would be preferable to the present name. 
Winslow is a railway division point where many trains stop for 
meals. It is the headquarters for a large surrounding stock country 
and an important center of trade with Hopi and 
Winslow. Navajo Indians (see Pl. XXIII) in the reservations 
Ponitueeat not far north. Near Winslow are the ruins of 
Kansas City 1,207 miles, Homolobi Pueblo, claimed by the Hopis to be the 
ome of their ancestors before the tribe had to flee 
to the high cliffs far to the north to be safe from their enemies. 
Winslow is at the south end of the Painted Desert, a district of 
undulating plains and bright-colored cliffs, which extends far north- 
ward into Utah. The Painted Desert lies between the canyons of 
Little Colorado and Colorado rivers on the west and the buttes and 
plateaus of the highlands on the east. Its width in general is about 
40 miles, comprising the outcrop of sandstones and shales that are 
mostly of Triassic age. 
Except in the two rivers there is no running water on the Painted 
Desert, and springs and water holes are far apart and of small volume. 
= The Hopi Indian villages of Oraibi (Pl. XXIV), Walpi, Schimopavi, 
Shipauiluvi, Mishonginivi, Sichomivi, and Hano are picturesquely 
built on the cliffs which project from a high plateau of sandstone into 
_ the western margin of the Painted Desert, about 60 miles north of . 
lain. Far to the north in the Navajo Reservation 
