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Jan 28-1934 Monday, Tucson.
Worked all day in the Hist. Sect.
In the afternoon walked out to the north-
ortheast portion of Tucson among the adobe
houses of the Mexicans and Indians. The
place once I finally saw the best caliche
cut is near the place visited Jan 19.
This cut on a street corner gives plainly
having a green stone
that the large vertical cuts are due to des-
cending waters since here the soil is slightly
reddish and it erats some of these tubs.
I will go back to this place and put a
sample pit since it is the best I have
seen.
I did get a piece on Jan 31 and the
red clay soil in the large tubes shows
clearly. I noticed also that Blake is
correct in saying that the caliche is
may always capped by a dense layer. It
is here from 15 to 18 more thick. On that
the reddish soils