Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
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on the field. A cup coal is ob common but could not make it (read)hellen. A Production also appears to be here. Our material are small as a very large one. Our coal matter of is cementer. The Min, is at least 57 feet thick. Natural Bridge - Pine Tuesday, April 5-1925. We stopped last night with the Scotch family by the name of Bondfellow. They are running a sand to raise food to take care of guests who see the Natural Bridge, a vast man of travertine that filled the gulch to a height of something like 200 feet. The stream of the gulch runs = Pine Creek through the travertine making a tunnel and hence the Natural Bridge. Frail Creek to the N. W. is also filled with travertine and it is this that gives name to the creek. We are here to see Rawsome's description of the section of Natural Bridge. The sand lies deep down in the gulch and is 700 feet beneath the road to Pine. Rawsome "Tapest" sandstone resting on the Archeogric, ganite is nothing more than the sandstone base of the Upper Permian. How thick it is we did not make out, but it appears to be like what we saw yesterday, Partally 60' thick. Above the sandstone there is about 190 feet of ag. li., dol.