Show prospectors arrive A few thousand greenhorn prospectors pec tors recently arrived arent betor going to civilize these purplish re red c cliffs R and blue mesas th the coining coming decade they can aks and puff and ventilate the nery nm with prospect holes but the p plateau lateau w will be there long after I 1 tee aana A and H bombs bomb are history ge the ABC has built worth ft access roads some with steep tortuous ous grades over the long tongues gues of perpendicular cliffs that make ke a ghost turn pale corkscrew mi a jeep through these vast patches attlies of aspen and broad ches of vivid color it is still possible to meet no one for a week there is still room for the unwary prospector to get lost among its serrated and crumbling cliffs that have no street mar markers lers this balcony to the high mountains on the continental divide has swallowed thousands of prospectors miners truckers and mill hands in one gulp and is willing to take OB on all who choose to bome press accounts say the country is booming and so it is the boom is there but it is difficult to locate in this country where everything is high wide and sod mighty in an average altitude of feet the newcomers breathe heavy and tire easily as they put one foot ahead of the other trudging up one slope and down another the unhindered sun can blister a tender skin before the owner is aware ware of exposure and the winter snow burns are as painful as the summer sunburn the chevrons che of ragged slide rock bruise tender feet led without warning and hardy oak brush rips clothing and cuts pink flesh when least expected the metamorphic rocks grind off shoe soles sates and the sandl sandstone raone works on the seat of the prospectors pants cooki looking n g over the edge of a cliff where distant mountains are under foot the mind can get dull and the stomach weak ambitious prospectors tors push their jeeps far back into the four corners country the only place in the U S where you can plaze a dune in four states and get back six cents change all around where colorado utah new mexico and arizona meet to divide the compass the gamma rays and beta particles are still dancing nothing can stop them and who wants to stop them they are worth about a dollar each if you can find them these active atoms have been slithering out of the rock for bilt billions ions of years and while they cannot be destroyed they can be counted invisible colorless silent they cannot be touched tasted or smelled but they can be collected |