SURVEY OF THE COLORADO OF THE WEST. 
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country which is already becoming the seat of many mining enterprises, 
for gold, silver, copper and other minerals, has also an abundant supply 
of coal. 
The deposits of salt on the Rio Yirgen in Nevada, Salina Creek and 
Salt Greek in Utah, and others on the northern slope of the Paria Pla- 
teau and the eastern escarpment of the same, have been examined. 
There are also extensive deposits of salt in the Devonian and Silu- 
rian rocks of the Grand Canon. All of these salt-beds have been the 
subject of much study. 
I have thus briefly outlined the extent of the geological work which 
has been performed. I have mentioned the fields of geological study 
which have been entered, and have given a few of the general results 
or the purpose of indicating the character of the work which has been 
performed. With what degree of fidelity and skill we have pursued 
these studies can only be revealed by the complete publication of all 
the maps, sections, illustrations, and discussions. 
ETHNOGRAPHY. 
During the continuance of the survey much time has been devoted 
to the ethnography of the country ; and these studies have been ex- 
tended to tribes beyond the limits of the country embraced in the sur- 
vey. I will briefly indicate the character of the material collected. 
LANGUAGE. 
The following is a list of the languages or dialects studied, and the 
number of words collected in each : 
Pfn-TTtos ....... 1. BOO 
Sln'-ni-mo 
500 
Ute 
. 1,500 
Narv'-a-jo 
Nu-a'-gun-tits 
1 , 200 
Chem-a-hui'-vis 
250 
Go-si -Utes 
800 
Pa'-vants 
150 
Pa-vi-o'-tsoes 
800 
Sho-slio-nee 
100 
To '-so- wets 
500 
Mo-ja'-ve 
50 
We have also paid some attention to the structure of the languages, 
and have collected a large amount of grammatical material, especially 
in the Ute, Pai-Ute, and Go-si-Ute. The words denoting personal re- 
lationship among all the tribes have been carefully studied, so that 
their systems of recognized consanguinity have been determined. 
We have found another interesting field of work in obtaining geo- 
graphic, astronomic, and meteorologic names and terms, and this has 
revealed to us some very interesting facts concerning the Indian’s con- 
ception of nature. 
Their numeral systems have been carefully studied, and in some tribes 
two systems of numbers have been discovered. 
Their mythological terms and names have been collected, as far as 
possible, and this has resulted in a study of their mythology, of which 
I shall make mention hereafter. 
