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DEFENSE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL - AMENDMENT

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July 11, 1961
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Approved For Release 2004/03/31 : CIA-RDP64B00346R000300180001-3
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 11395
The national monument was established
by Presidential proclamation on August
2, 1937, and covers more than 61 square
miles.
Because it resembles domed capitol
buildings, the great, 20-mile-long but-
tressed sandstone cliff with its cap of
white Navajo sandstone, was named
Capitol Reef. Early geologists called
such cliffs in this area reefs because of

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