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Show UTAH AND ARIZONA. Difficulties of Surveying the Dividing Divid-ing Line. CWashington Post.) II. B. Carpenter of Kenwood, Cal., a civil engineer, who has just completed a survey of the southern line of Utah, is in Washington to consult with government gov-ernment officials concerning a contract which he has taken to. establish the southern boundary of Colorado. In establishing the dividing line between Utah and Arizona. Mr. Carpenter and his associates encountered many hardships, hard-ships, and located the boundary-through boundary-through a territory which the Mormon residents of southern Utah said could not be traversed by a white man. "A strange-thing about the line between be-tween Utah and Arizona is that it does not cross a foot of cultivated land." Mr. Carpenter said last night at the Hotel Johnson. "And I do not think that any of the land adjoining the line can ever be cultivated. There are fertile fer-tile valleys to the north and south of the boundary. St. George, one of the best known Mormon towns in southern Utah, lies but a few miles north of the line. The boundary traverses a desert, which is cut up by great canyons can-yons that are almost impassable. The length of the line is 277 miles. "Landmarks which we located along the line win maKe it possioie ior tne boundary to be located without any aifflculty in the future. Just east of the Colorado river a sandstone butte arises 1,000 feet above the plain, and, strange enough, the very peak of this butte is exactly on the boundary. We named the butte State Line butte. Not far from this butte is another, which stands 1,300 feet above the plain, and was named Tower peak. These two gigantic stones will always be a. guide to persons who want to locate the state line. "Four Corners is one of the most interesting in-teresting spots in the United States. It is the point where Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah touch one another. an-other. This is the only place in the United States where this occurs. There is nothing remarkable about the location. loca-tion. It is in the midst of a broken desert, des-ert, and grass is very scarce. It is such a ' long distance to sources of supply that it is almost impossible to carry feed for stock. Many of our horses and mules died of starvation. The Colorado Colo-rado river gave us considerable trouble. ' It flows through such deep, impassable canyons that we got our stock across it with great difficulty. In some places the walls of the canyon are 6.000 feet high. Where we crossed the canyon it was 2,000 feet deep." |