October 28, Tuesday. Atika. At 6 P.M. last night it cooled off rapidly and by 7 a little rain came down. During the night it rained much and today we are all “hung up” waiting for drier conditions. Snyder hates this country and is so ugly that he is hard to live with. Everything and everybody is sorry and more like until we get out of the Quachita county. We will remain at the hotel today. This afternoon Mr Coy telegraphed Snyder for us to get out of this county and to go to Wartsome all other places by rail. He had decided to start out tomorrow morning via auto to McAlester if possible. This finally does mean that I will not get back here. Maybe the long dry or the or just as it seems. What I wanted to see is the Jackfork and the possibility of fossils. The chances are all against my getting them. Then too I wanted to see the Canes resting upon the Jackfork. That this is the solution I must then accept in the evidence of Taff, Sirt and Ulrich. In looking over Sirty’s report on “The fauna of the Canes Hole” Oklahoma it is plain that are are dealing in the formations are the Quachitas and not are formation and that it is Minisippian. Of course Ulrich places it in the Pennsylvanian only