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,,~ ~ joins the l~tter before reaching the main stream. S~nnging around through the south to a northwesterly direction San Juan River' con- tinues into Utah where it turns west to empty in Colorado River , some 125 miles west of the common corner of the four states~ Florida River, rising in the Needle Mcuntains, flows southwesterly down a very narrow granite canon for 15 miles. Even after passing into sedimentary formations the canon widens but little during the next 15 miles. As Florida River passes out of the Cretaceous formation into the softer Tertiary the hills swing away at about right angles to the ~iver, which continues in a shnl- low narrow valley nearly 20 miles further to its junction with Animas River. The project Lands are located on Flc~ida Mesa be- .~ "~I!;*~ ~~~'>:' tween Florida and Animas rivers below where Florida River leaves the mountains, and southeast of Durango. Florida Mesa is the second largest and most compact body of ar~ble land in Sun Juan Basin as wall as one of the most fertile. The mesa begins at a point five miles due east of the city of Durango at an elevation of 7,200 feet. It opens to~~rd the west to a width of five miles in the same distance s(~th, continues at this width for eight miles and then in a distance of six miles closes to a point where Florida and Au,imas Rivers join, It is thus roughly diamond-shaped with a length of 15 miles and a width of six miles. Its southern extremity is five miles north of the Colorado- New Mexico state line. The general slope is slightly toward Animas River 0n the west ~nd strongly t0ward the s')uth "lith the general slope of the country, 2