springs materials (granite) of the higher level to the east. The valley is still wide all along here. These mountains also go up upon the foothills of the granite country. The granite in this county if exposed breaks down about as does the limestone on Table Head only that the pieces are considerably larger. As we get beyond Emerson the train climbs higher and higher and finally we get at dusk on the upper level of the granite hills. The surface is not a plane but a pretty undu- lating one with pointed conical residual hills, several hundred feet high,