Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
Page 82
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Jerome, Arizona, Tuesday April 7-1925 left up late, and rested all morning at the hotel writing of the previous days work. From the roof of Hotel Jerome one gets a confused view of the country to the east and northeast. In the distance the high in the lower half (north) & lower third (east). rims conspicuous red cliffs on the Lubar, above the edge of the Plateau stones the high snow crowned San Francisco volcanoes are farther to the west the lower Bill Williams Rt. Below the rim and much nearer Jerome, both on the east and west side of the Verde River are the Tertiary "lake beds", rather large depressions having gypsum. Back of Jerome, to the west, Black Hills is capped with Paleogene limestones (Clw. and Min.), terraced which in the "Tapeats sometime". It rests on the Archeozoic schists and dolerite. Just east of Jerome are the Paleogene limestones dropped 1300 feet, or the Black Hills are raised that amount. See the 12 postals and pictures purchased of the Highgrade Art Studio of the scenery about Jerome.