[Mile-marker 8]
About half a mile north of the farm road we reach the highest point on
Broadway (Colo. 340) at a drainage divide. Inasmuch as the three
Redlands Lift Canals end east of the divide, there is quite a contrast
between the lush irrigated lands east of the divide and the nearly
barren desert to the west, a view of which is shown in figure 43. To the
southwest of the divide is an excellent view of the
northeastward-dipping beds on the Lizard Canyon monocline. On the left
about a mile northwest of the divide we pass the other entrance of
Monument Canyon, then Lizard Canyon, and a switchback on Rim Rock Drive
ascending the ridge between Lizard and Fruita Canyons. The water well
beneath elevated tank on left is 650 feet deep and formerly flowed at
about half a gallon a minute from the Wingate Sandstone. Household needs
are obtained by pumping.
[Illustration: LOOKING WEST FROM DIVIDE ON BROADWAY 2 MILES EAST OF
WEST ENTRANCE TO MONUMENT. Monoclinal hill on right is Brushy Basin
Member of Morrison Formation capped by basal beds of Burro Canyon
Formation. Rocks at left middle are blocks of sandstone in the Salt
Wash Member of the Morrison. (Fig. 43)]