9652

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9652
• Author: Jordan, D. S.
• Title: Report of Explorations in Colorado and Utah During the Summer of 1889, With An Account of the Fishes Found in Each of the River Basins Examined.
• USFW Year: 1889.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

1rXPLORATIO.T$ IN COLORADO AND UTA$, _
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y r seinexi zYrkansaa Fiver and Grape Cree
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iB?tT"Fi;le;. seined Arkansas River.
? 'ent U Twin Lases with Col. John Gay and Mr. George R:- Fiaher t met Mr. Gordon
u`Gtaiiied apaeimens of front of two varieties
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essW ocd Spriugs; seined Roa ng Fork. River
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01tdsod; joined by 31r: Bert ?eaJer Evermann and Davis remain a dayat Gppsam -
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se
ned Gunnison Ricer aad Tomichl Creek.
.rrotk •, seined Cimarron Creek
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elte; seined Gunnison and Uneompah9re Ricers.
At Ymvo; seined Provo River and
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y Peter Mads3u and his sons, drew a long
tin Utah Lake.
?9y 7.-Suit Lake City; seined Jordan Ricer.
.10,-At Juab; seined Sevier River and Chicken Lake.
A-4 12:-At Green River (Blake Cit
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ned the river, assisted by Mr. J. F. Brown.
14.-At Ouray; examined Uncomhah
River
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19;=4£ITnrs;figo, seined Rio de lax Auii
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das and Rio Florida
L 11, -19:--At Alarnosa, Colo.; Evermanu and Fesler visit Del Norte, Colo.; seined Rio Grande, Rio
onejoe
and San Lu
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`!1-_--At Manitou Springs.
=At Hartsel's Hot Springs ; seined the South Platte
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-Al, Denver; seined the South Platte
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_ ' Ai Boulder; seined Boulder Creek ; Fesler and Davis visit Morrison, aeining Bear Creek. "
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Colorado, reaching Bloomin
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nd., August 27.

_ COLORADO
. late of Colorado is for the most
art a
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evated and: Arid region, traversed
it. lofty mountains extending north and south, one of them being the main
the continent, which is nowhere crossed by streams,
eastern part of the State the mountains cease almost abruptly, and give place
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T. -piai ns, an elevated and nearly level re
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ch slopes gradually eastward
Kansas and Nebraska to the
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ssouri River. This region has in Colorado
?- =fall. Its vegetation is scants, except along the streams
where the soil ma
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y
.:,very fertile by irrigation. In the central part of the State elevated and arid
rendered fertile by irrigation lie between the mountain chains. On the north
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of monntai
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ns, especially ni: rthwanl, are considerable pine forests, while above
tl ;?tijnber line are level
;sissy areas, mountain meadows, well watered and with a

difftion of wild flowers. The mountain chains also
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some
mes inclose large flat green
-many of them former lake beds, which have become filled with sediment and
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vegetation. These are known as parks, and in these the clear monntain
pursue courses with interminable meanderings and with but slight current.
f .
r the western part of Colorado the
r
at f
ld
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g
e
o
s of the granite monntains give place
ly to horizontal strata. Here erosion of water on a
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an
sca
e has tilled this re-
,fwith gorges, the intervening rock, being left as mesas and buttes. In one case,
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esa stands at a height of nearly a mile above the Gunnison River at
the top of the mesa bein
h
; reac
ed by some seven or eight successive stairs,
+ Yepresentin
;
g a separate plane of erosion.
?iUjbe northwestern part of Colorado are man
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s c
ear
akes of glacial origin, but.
rest of the State the lakes are comparatively few.
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