Banks of the Upper Colo. River, Grand R. near Debeque. Oil Shale layer several hundred feet thick at top of cliffs (3,000 ft. high) a few miles east of Grand Valley to Glenwood Springs - juniper and some spruce clothe the slopes of detritus where deer may be found. Sloping back from the top of the cliff are rolling grassy plains home of deer and the long passed buffalo. Colorado. Cottonwood, oak, sage & greaswood. - - has a plant & laboratory where experiments have been going on for several years in the extraction of oil from shales. When splintered & put on campfire they burn freely
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Banks of the Upper Colo. River, Grand R. near Debeque. Oil Shale layer several hundred feet thick at top of cliffs (3,000 ft. high) a few miles east of Grand Valley to Glenwood Springs - juniper and some spruce clothe the slopes of detritus where deer may be found. Sloping back from the top of the cliff are rolling grassy plains home of deer and the long passed buffalo. Colorado. Cottonwood, oak, sage & greaswood. - - has a plant & laboratory where experiments have been going on for several years in the extraction of oil from shales. When splintered & put on campfire they burn freely.
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