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Graham, Texas,
Wednesday, March 23-1922
A bright day. At 9:15 A.M. started south
in the Wichita Falls and Southern R.R. from
Tongue [illegible] to South Bend.
Don't Bend. Got there at 10 in a mixed
train. Then started 2½ mile N.-E. for
an outlier known as Bean Mountain, where
the whole of the South Bend shale is exposed.
Fossils are good but very scarce. Got about
50 specimens and nearly all of these occur
about 10- to 20-foot beneath the top. Of
ammonites got a few fragments but nothing
good. Limestone caps the outlier and at
its base occurs the final limestone of the
Canyon series, Lee Keysl.
A whole day for little progress.
Returned to Graham on the 5 P.M. mixed
train.
Don't Bend is burning, that is building
of the Cheyenne shortly town to catch the oil
men. One fire would burn it up and the Los
Angeles would care for it as a dismal place.