Austin, April 1-1926. Thursday The days fine and at 10.30 A.M. are off for East Texas in the car of the Bureau of Economic Geology operated by Dr. E. H. Sellards. Go or directly east from Austin to Dripping Springs, Johnston City to Fredericks- burg. Here are arrived at 1 P.M. having come 83 miles. Had lunch and at 1.30 are turn north and a little west, and soon get into the basal Comanchean that has much of red beds. Then are get down into the basin of Central Mineral Area and from Cambrian sandstones and shales and then a long reach of steeply upturned Paed saddle schist and red sands. It is 34 miles to Mason which is on these old rocks and soon are upon a narrow outlin of the Comanchean, and then over thin bedded Cambrian-Ordovician and finally Pennsylvanian to Brady which is 27 miles N. of Mason. From Brady at 4 P.M. go for almost directly east and soon get in the Comanchean have a series of variegated clays with calcareous shales, stone. Then from Edern over Cretaceous and finally Permian on which San Angelo is built. It is about 80 miles from Brady to San Angelo, and about 230 miles from Austin. Put up at San Angelo Hotel. Set here at 6.15 P.M. About five miles N. of Fredericksburg are had one four mine across the basin of the Central Mineral Area