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Moore 1931 Event Well 5035 ft R.B.E T.M.W, Providence
Int., Incline Desert San Bernardino Co,
California.
May 27, 1931.
a)
Been exposed for a period of two or three
years. - Borne reported a possible road
to the base of the Providence Mts. from
Kelso. A pipe line runs back in the
mountains a short distance.
Proceeding north along the railroad from
Kelso we stopped at Lime after a climb of
approximately two thousand feet in eighteen
miles.
One south of Kelso about three miles, the
road from Bombay passes lower a wood
cotton through a wide area of sanddunes.
The dunes cover an area of approximately
five square miles and are composed
of extremely fine yellow sand. The sand
is piled to a height of about two hundred
feet in places and is bare of any vegetation
whatever. Around the edges a giant grown
of sword grass and desert serbenza occurs,
and in the wood cottons through the
dunes occasional mosquitoes are found.
Trouble was experienced in a few places
where sand had blown over and covered
the road, and a heavy car rapidly loses
traction after proceeding through it
for a few feet.
Several large lizards, almost the color of
the sand were seen, but they were so
deapt at concealing themselves that
dodging into holes that it was difficult
to get a shot at them. In places where
the water in the loader wood cotton had
cut into the sand could, immovable.