Field Notebook: Wyoming

Trip to Wyoming 1899 Second lord. doc.80

Property of Charles Dehuchert U.S. National Museum Washington, D.C.

Tonsil Field Expedition consists of July 21. 19 wagons 24 tents 6 Gents 85 girls, students and teamsters which there are about 19. doc. 80

Como. Anticline. Red beds Triassic Baptonodus beds marine Jurassic Atlantosaurus beds fresh w. “ Great Dinosaur horizm. Look for small mammals in “dirt beds.” Dakota sandstone. Plants f. water. Fossils 20m. east Como station in cream clayed beds. Poor Lam. Green River Fossil beds 4m. W i R.R. cut Also along Pitta Creek. Hamsford to John D. Haddenham.

Marins Jun. loc. J Knight. Freeport Hills, Carbon Co. by. Collect ceph. for Stanton from the Bottom of the Colorado. Green River Station } Green River Stansford " loc. from this place drive to Fosil. Lebontis creek. Old Hayden loc. Look for plants.

General section. Archaeon. Palegoie, Camb. & Carl. Red Hills Triassic Marine Jurassic du Freeport Hill Fresh water Jurassic Upper Cret. Dakota fr. m. Plants. Goats. Colorado { Midbrara, marine, { Benton, marine du fr Alphalordda } Montana { Fort Pierre, marine Fox Hills marine 1000 } Laramie { Upper Laramie } fresh w. 7000 { Lower } Anatophols. Eocene Green River " Bridge not in view.

July 16-1899 Sunday Left Washington 7.20 P.M. July 17 Monday Arrived in Pittsburgh 7 A.M. Chicago 8.45 P.M. Left " 10.30 P.M. July 18 - Tuesday On Chicago North Western R.R to Omaha. Arrived there at 4.05 P.M. Left 4.35 p Lawrence July 19- Wednesday. Arrived at Lawrence at 10.30 Spent most of the day at the University and later drove around a little with Beleh, Callahan & Moore. In the afternoon there was a meeting to organize the party. Pres. Prof. [illegible] was elected temporary Chairman and Prof. Barbour temp.

A secretary. A committee was elected by them to propose offices for the expedition. This Com. consisted of Hambach, Smith Barbour, Knights and Schuchert. They appointed the following officers who elected [illegible] were elected by the assembly without opposition. Director and President Rev. Gilbert C. Knight. Secretaries Collins Cobb Tan Norman E. H. Barbour Referee for West Pal. not Mount W. F. Osborne Mexican-- Ref for South Pal S. Hambach C. Schuchert Ref for Photography

Ref. for Petrography A. R. Lawson A. R. Crook Ref. for General Geology Fred. B. Peck Bradhead, Ref. for Physiography Eugene L. Collic Ref. for Botany Camron Photographers R. Q. Meriwether H. G. Cornell In the evening there was a reception. The Pres. of the University spoke and a number of others. Mr. I attended the latter part of the evening. Nearly all the prominent jurists spoke.

July 20 - Thursday. Purchased a few things in the morning and made ready for the trip. Paid Knight $1.00 for the entire trip, with the understanding that he would rebate if I do not take the entire trip. Later in the day learned that the start will be made tomorrow morning. July 21 - Friday. Camp I. After a great deal of starting the expedition started at 10 o'clock. It is very hard to help himself with a great deal of food management and ordering. Fifty three paid passengers start. In a general way we go north, and some on the Big Laramie plain.

andward on the by Laramie plains and the Big and Little Laramie rvs to a place called St James or 7 mile lake. Prof Knight laps behind and no one knows the strong place and finally we go into camp without him. After another scramble and a wait for something to eat he turns up. He came about 18 to 30 miles over a rolling and generally open country. The country in a desolate one, no station and probably a house very 5 miles. The plain in a sparingly grassed one, with cactus and here and there spring holes. At the place 7 miles from Laramie there was a ruin of quite an extent of country. The heat during the day was great and heat waves very noticeable accompanied with considerable mirage effects. At the lake level one of the party collected Fort Pierre fossils and I collected an Inoceramus from the top of the hills vain

The Fox Hills. July 22 Saturday. Camp II. Got out at 5 and have breakfast at 6. Started away from Alkali Camp at 8. Drove 3 miles on the way and arrived at Copper Creek Camp at noon. Distance good about 10 miles from here to 8. All the hills in this region are of Fox Hills formation which have been flaked down and covered with a layer of granite and quartz boulders of considerable size. On the Fox Hills near down the boulder layer come all the slopes. At first I thought the boulders had been deprised with the Fox Hills sandstone but further observation and consideration did not uphold this. Today and also yesterday we saw two lakes (St James) which appear to be sinks Col Knight says that the St. James lake is a good camping spot, but hides the area.

Col. Knight says that the Dinosaur beds in large cavernous shield whilst the quite ideas. The Fox Hills in prawns and the water gets down through it carrying away dints of the Fox Hills and thus form a sinky? Of the former Of course are late on the Dinosaur plains are not sands but most of the other to be. In the afternoon about 30 I us collected Fox Hills fossils. I gathered a few of the rare forms. Dicroceramus are very abundant All the fossils occur in nodular masses which when unweathered are very hard and blue in color. Otherwise their color is brown and lighter covered. Secured a byzance and a coral among other things. Of the latter Mrs. Linnigare has good example.

July 23 Sunday Camp II Camp of yesterday remains unbroken today. After breakfast drove over to the foot hills of the Medicine Bow Range and climbed to the top of one which is probably 8000 feet above the plane. Here we found snow (about 10,000 ft above the sea) and had a grand view of the Laramie plains with St. James and Cooper Creek Lakes in plain view. Other lakes smaller ones could also be seen and in the far distance Laramie Peak stood up. Distance about 50 miles. Laramie Plains is by no means a plain but is considerably cut up by gently rolling hills and rivers. It is a tree less tract but towards the mountains Cooper Creek and Red Creek bottoms are very green with small willows and other trees. The mountains are thickly wooded.

with conifer, quaking aspen etc. Flowers and beautiful ones abound everywhere in the vicinity of springs, creeks and rivers. The mountains are made of crystalline and eruptive rocks supposed to be of Algon- Kian age. I had a long talk with Prof Knight and one of the remarks are they mentioned in the first thickness of the Cretaceous strata, The Laramie is said to be 7000 feet thick and a similar thickness for the Fox Hills or Fort Pierre. The present mountains are Post Cretaceous since they lyeth through the Cretaceous deposits! This is the opinion of Prof. Knight. A more probable structure is the elevation of the Medicine Bow & Laramie butts in highland area with rapid erosion and deposition in the valleys or between the mountains. With the introduction of the Laramie then was another physical change beginning with a great conglomerate and boulders as large as a man. This one

also the introduction of fresh waters. The conglomerate is of the same age as the Order- cene beds since one sees in it identical rocks. This is also the opinion of Prof. Lawson. This opinion receives further confirmation in the fact that in both cases one finds Carboniferous Permian rocks. July 24 Monday, Camp III. Left Camp 7:15 A.M. and started for Button Creek Coal Mines where we arrived at 11 A.M. The lignite is exposed in a narrow dry run in the prairie. The Creek flows along the bed of the coal. Dip North. 18 to 20° 3' Shale Sandstone, Hardy out 2 1/2' White with bent sand Main leaf horizon 6' 4' 2' Shale Lignite Jewett Et. S.

"The leaves have been drifted to this place since are are in payments. The one perfect leaves are on the surface sandstone. The leaves in the main horizon are for a buff thin lagoon shale and are completly mattered together, but with their imperfect condition and their abundance many, I must value in the way of perfection can be seemed. The lepton bed is the lower four feet in a declining black light material becoming more impure above. The following shale horizon is composed of number strands of bright yellow with brownish streaks passing above into the buff leaf horizon. This is followed by seam of whitish once or two coarse sandstone sometimes with small pellets for 2 to 6 feet thick. The folios and also brownish bituminous layers about six thick with the outer s, capped by more noble course sandstone yellowish in color and then streaked by iron stains."

At 2 P.M. left Outum creek and at 4.10 pitched camp on Rock Creek about one mile from the new S.P. R.R. cut-off. Distance about 6 miles. On our way to this camp for the last two miles we came down the valley of Rock Creek. The valley is several miles wide and in one place have layers of sandstone are seen on both sides of the valley dipping in opposite directions. Rock Creek therefore has cut its valley down through the apex of the anticlinal with the beds dipping S. R. more S. Dip apparently 20 to 30. After arriving in camp walked S.E. up over the valley ridge from camp and came across three outcrops of sandstone. The first one is about 3/4 mile away and stands out in two mounds of iron-stained sandstone. In this I noticed casts of a very large Anomuros and one of the

Prof Beelsman. mrs found a good coal washin. Oysten also occur here. The oust sandstone S.E. is not prolificum folliwd by a thin which bear numerous small fossils along Baculites and cephalites. About 1/3 mile more S E, there is a very prominent outcrop, which I will examine tomorrow. Rock Creek shows clearly how a long plane is produced. One side of the creek thus is low bluff the one on the northern side most precipitous with the creek meandering through its alluvial bottom. On the higher terraces no alluvion can be detected. At different times this stream has cut down its bed to a stationary level when a change of line took place another terrace cut. The quartz boulders here again show the polishing effect by the glary sand and in places the sandstone is jilted due to what action.

Rest Cr Riv Crk f July 25-1899 Camp III. Tuesday. 450 650 Creeksm clay pt Dip 25-0 S. Flu. E & N Bar. 6790. Oondston unprof'd. 300 100 500 275 175 Dip 29-0 S. Bar. 6815. Bar 6805 228 35 34 bar Cant. on amphitheater.

1 The intestines and [illegible] 2 The anus, [illegible], small parts, contains [illegible]s, very large [illegible], 3 On the left side of the body, the penis is visible, 4 Between legs, 3 inches long. 5 In the middle, 29 and a half inches thick. 6 And was larger than 45 inches in length above the belly at the bottom. 7 In the front, [illegible]. 8 The anus, [illegible] containing [illegible], very large. 9 White soft meat. Will palm leaves, emits a fruity scent. Only smelled. 10 It is known that it can be used as an aphrodisiac.

from forward page 4350 20° S. Shore E. & h. Jan. 6927- Shape Ridge with Pine Trees, "Pine Tree Ridge" 310 yards Jan. 6927 Apr. 27-09, July 25 Tuesday Camp III.

July 25 - Tuesday. Camp III. Resumed work this morning on the same beds of slate yesterday. In the face of the creek bluff (locality 1) I noticed Baculites. Locality 2 is at the base of the most promi- ent sandstone ridge and contains oysters, large Inoceramus, Clypeaster? (now in Lafayette Coll, pa. Prof Reed). Many speci do not appear to be present. Have three specimens. Locality 3 contains a number of small speci. I have specimens. Loc. 4 we named the gastropod lagen although other horzons have numerous gastropods. I have specimens. I have included a number of lagen in a Loc. 5. Ammonites lagen. This horizon is very polifide in fossils and has not only Hamites, Doli- ceras, Baculites but also Placenticeras, Pygohceras and another genus of Ammonite. Five large gastro- pods occur here. Prof. Bartow had the luck to find the finest nodules and secured a large collection. Ammonites occur & occur in other widely separated zones but this is the

"important horizon. It has include a number of layers since they closely adjoin. Loc. 6. This is a series of often limestone layers, not nodular. Shell Corium is the prominent fossils. In this zone a few shark's teeth were found two Prof Lawson and only Prof Charlton. It may be near the zone that the latter also found a outskirt of Plesiosaurus? See also the note than you on the gentleman. Ninety fathoms above Loc. 6 is a thin zone probably in the reef with a great abundance of Diceroceras and scattering leaves. Above of the latter a few by Prof. Knyphs collected them for Mr Charlton. This is the most important find of the day and was made by Prof Brown of Morgan- Town, M.D., Va. Loc. 8 is quite a distance south of the plant horizon and has numerous fragments of

"oysters could see nothing of importance. Loc. 9 is the most southern anchorage made a vertical escarpment. The layers here are a very soft sandstone and sandy shale, About a mile south of the ridge are layers of impane lignite which Lawson says are five feet thick. Here various parties found leaves, of which Collier & Deloit have a large palm leaf fossil. Dr J. Stanford has some other and tells me that he has seen several species of Conifers, Fucoids, Platanae, Ficus and Dacafres. Prof Knight says that the horizon for most of the fossils collected is debatable since it is on or near the horizon of the Fort Pierre and Fox Hills. The latter he says continues with here and these marine fossil horizons 1 1/2 mile over the strata beyond my section in loc. 9. The Fox Hills he slips, in 7000 feet thick. A good collection was made by Mr. Andrew Kemper and will go to Gustavus Adolphus

College St Peter Moun. Beside the fine lumps of the Commander layer has party has also two fine leams of Dalrol and two other dicotyledons not identified by me. The both are for tre 9. The leams from the Incranum layer mapped up separately belong to Prof Knight. Annottmore to identify them and return same to Prof Knight (Later he asks my for a report) July 26 Wednesday Camp III. Started out with the wagons to collect between Camp III and the D.P.R.R. and then along the track toward Crown. When our wagons got lost or rather separated from Knight and when we found each other it was too late to go on to the Midmore chaffle an Fort Sutton. The only thing I saw was a very [illegible]

out of Pine Ridge prominent nodular ridge and very large Dinosaurus, some of it inches in diameter. He was caught in four heavy rain showers. c For an arid region the rain was particularly heavy and the rain bow effects very brilliant in fact more or than I have ever seen. One of the party collected a bone in the Fox hills near Harper on the N.P. R.R. which Knuth says is of a Dinosaur The then a vertebrae not concave, very porous with all the processes removed,

July 27 Thursday Camp III Every thing is damp this morning and we feel our in the broken up. Everyone is busy packing his material to ship to the railroad. I have two packs which I have addressed to him. I suppose they were rebanded. We broke camp by nine and got started at ten. At noon we take lunch at Thornton ranch in the bottom of Rock Creek. Here is a fine example of streams crumbler not less than 8 forks in a half mile of medium bottoms. It rains again quite heavily by one and near three we have built camps ad rain. On approaching the highland before we enter the Inman county are see flock after flock of antelope. They are in herds of from 8 to 72. Thirty or

seen creatures by Dan Norman and other day 50. He also saw two isolated Elk, A Jack Rabbit and occasionally a coyote came into view. At six we camp just S. Detroit P R R, station Aurora and Lake Como to the N. of the P.R., and the Como Junction bluff to the S. Distance from last camp about 17 miles by road, while the cross prepare coffee for S. to into Como Bluff and soon find Ammonites and Belemnites. Other members bring in Division pay- ments and me vertebra of Baptanodon. Larson found the body chamber of the Ammonite for the Frege but this sent to Ottawa by Knight. Crilled of Detroit found Ostracite like shells associated with Ammonites. These are in the Baptanodon beds.

July 28 Friday Camp IV. After breakfast spent the morning on Camp Bluff Found fragments of Dinosaur bones in the Red beds and in the green shale immediately above but nothing of value. Collected some marine Jurassic fossils which are quite rare and returned to camp. In the afternoon drove Westward to the end of Camp Bluff where the entire strata can be seen in a fine anticline Here the arch is shown in two thousand feet while on each side the strata dip somewhat at about 25° but another at about 65° very northward in the high Camp Bluff at the base of which is the W.P.R. R. At this section not is clear than the termination of the arch and the curvature or the domed uplift Farther to the west in the valley of Rock Creek with its numerous meanders. The Sketch on the next page show the anticline at this eastern end. We intended to photograph this section but heavy rain prevented. See also at this section our field notes ```**day of Oarath Alipodum a strike of many**

"day of March thirteenth a strike of meat 6. When I returned to camp found that my tent had been deluged and my bedding swamped. Prof. Knight brought in his bed and we slept together. Our numerous places for Omisaurus bones which leads me to believe that canyons perfectly would be result in another. Lanyon found a specimen at the center and at turns it over to sleep for order stay to dry it out. Carleton also find a few bone in the bed beds, the longest known. Aug 28 on my way to Green River I see again the Cameo Bluff. To the east of Aurora station several miles one sees much of the FT Benton and the Atlantisaurus hips begin to appear in a very fine Bluff. On we proceed around along the southern the strata rises higher and forms the Cameo Bluff and lower are lower strata in the red beds make their appearance. The track and road cuts through the anticlinal and reveals the strata much a show screen diagrams. The Jura continues to the west - Prof Dr of Medicine Pmr.

July 26-99 Dark cliff shales. H. Benton ? La Knight Delta Fault Limonium pure shale Dip about 60° White sandstone upper layers Red Beds passing

(illegible) Dinosaur knijm Rile shell Beleninite knijm White sandstone thin bedded Red beds Sahanteloo White sand. Red Bed < dip White chalk White sandstone Red Hds. Came Hull 4 miles NW Red & blue White sandstone White chert Dip unknown

10 uchte Com- Alkff ym. Jhly 25-99 Com Alkff 350-400 hift dem t. thinné Ruchten Thierie Salamis gme. Vayder dke Inor delc Dicht. Am Comuc pr Richt.

Dail Creek U.P. Red sandstone and candy shale 20 feet. Capped by whitish sandstone. Red beds estimated shale 15 to 20 feet. Whitest heavy bedded ss. Crow bedded with. about 20 feet. Red shale 5-7 feet Whitish sandstone shale 36 feet Red shale 8 feet Thin layer of ss 2 ft Red shale 4 feet ss to the dip into the folded white crowns ss. 22' Slightly conglomeratic at top. ? End of Trines. Greenist to Cliff. Sandy shale. Deaths down rapidly in face for some valleys 20 ft. Belenmites = Ammonites dominant. Buff, crowm heavy bedded ss. about 70 feet. Belenmites. Red Buff white sandy shale. Deaths down rapidly into cliffland. Buff blue holigmos. Belenmite. White crowns ss. 5 ft. Soft buff to greenish sandy shale about 10 ft. Caenula Bell. Main Belenmite layers. Soft White to Cliff ss, 15 feet. Greenist shale drift hard a branny limestone conglomerate pebbles cementing. 20 ft. The limits come here and a little more.

Dinosaur [illegible] Shady July 29-79 Sharp's Red Lest Redar and mud trim. Arm varied with Buff shale sandy Red sashalom also his pocket dark Left side shale with blotted a buff stroke in thin greenish plain variety not Axe shale. Towards the tip the same corundum often intercalated by the shale. Dakota sandstone is now a he heavy bed. Break up into agate various and fall down on the surface. Picking 45.

July 29-99 Saturday Camp IV. Started at 6 A.M. and after breakfast made the ascent of the eastern end of Cynos Bluff. Broke camp at nine and at 11.45 arrived at Medicine Bow on the U.P. R. R. After looking over the village and its beer saloons and gambling houses drove a mile to the Medicine Bow River when we had lunch. At half past one started for our night's camp. Prof. Smith had to go back to the station to adjust tickets for the returning party and as less than half an hour we had gone on the army trail, After looking around for an hour or so, Smith riding 3 or 4 miles away in a different direction. One of our horse men went after him and then he concluded to "ride over" on the south Med. cow, some miles from Medicine Bow, and next morning to this camp we saw one J Ostorne dying. Took two photos of it. My observations at Cynos Bluff show that the photo there are comfortable and con-

tious thought that the Triassic is about 106-113 feet thick, the marine Jurassic 170 ft; the fresh water Jurassic 135-150 ft and the Dakota sandstone 45. The total thickness of strata exposed on the railroad track to the top of Como Bluff from 446-478 feet, Estimated. However in new arrangements Broadhead's previous section I see no reason for assuming that the Dinosaur beds are fresh water since Knight says he found in the Dakota sandstone a marine vertebrate. If this is true then the Jurassic Dinosaur beds have marine strata far above below. The chance of a mari fame in these beds in the strongest argument for their fresh water origin due if the chalk can be of marine origin. After leaving Medicine Bow river and looking for to Como Bluff another anti- cline came into our which is very but no quiet at all with it. I have taken

The photo which may help to show this structure. This region is a splendid one for structural geology and splendid models can be made fit for school purposes. Talk to Bullard of this. July 30-99 Tuesday Camp V and VI After breakfast walked over the Jurassic hills near Camp on the Little Medicine at Nine Mile Crossing. The coal hills they I secured came from the top of the marine Jurassic just underneath the limestone horizon. Belemnites came in a little lower and below the main Belemnite horizon I secured the pelycosaurs. The section here is the same succession as at Camp only that the beds occur in low hills which make the upraise more accessible. We broke camp and leave by 9.30 A.M., Arrived at the north-western end of the Frege Out Mt. beside a good spring by 2.30 P.M. 12 miles by road from "Nine Mile crossing" After lunch started up the hill back

"Section of the Arthur Cary VI. Oct 30th 1944. North & South of Road Boundary to be followed as per Plan. "30 ft. 70" "30 ft. 6 ft. from the road boundary line. South West of the road boundary. "40" "55 S.S. R.D."

300 350/limit and minutes Valdetto, 20-75 foot acre. 35'- Mr. & Mrs. 25 ft. x [illegible] [illegible] 115 Giga huddie or Henry Tucker 15 H. [illegible] [illegible] comes thru in the home number rooms and [illegible] people or mobiles. 274.- 3000 acres from snow farmalls, Obliges mobiles or phones. 110 90 Mr. & Mrs. D. O'p means the an dandah charting-0? N.C. i. [illegible] June 9th, 1927 Or "Mrs. Christy" says that a few able to consider their own house. A woman give to another one of things continue in his 37 ft 75- 6 30 40 100 250

I came over the Dakota cylmudite after passing over the crest which dived down into a valley which has the dinosaur horizon and on the other side of the [illegible] the Dakota cylmudite upon the continuation of the hill instead of going on Freeze Out but passed down the valley north and west along the great ravine westward. Here my attention was attracted to large mass of sand- stone. I then concluded to climb the ridge facing the setting sun and inside the section on the previous page. I was partly surprised to see that here the dinosaur horizon instead of being shale throughout has at least a foot or two of heavy bedded sandstone. Here as elsewhere the marine Jurassic holds its position. The four fossils gathered are also in the section for this horizon. The thickness here appear to be the same as at Como Bluff. The character of the beds and facies of the so called fresh water deposits are different.

July 31-99. Monday Camp. XL. Started out from Treze Ouit Out with Roman and Cornice. Reviewing my section of yesterday. On the low slope of the dome beneath Treze Ouit Int, which is about 100 feet beneath in the Red Beds the base of the marine fauna collected a number of small fossils. This forms the rim of the Amphitheater. These are in the Upper Taurianic Sitting on the slope and looking South to Treze Out Int one can see the strata arching from the north, and northern east and west along the eastern sides of this upper portion of the arch and the free shore of the Omicron horizon is in large part replaced by a whitish sandstone while on the eastern slopes there is no sandstone in this zone. The distance across from east to east cannot be more than four miles and yet there is this marked change. All that I have seen proves to me that the Omicron horizon is not of fresh water origin. It lies conformable upon the marine fauna and conformable beneath the Dakota, which Knight (Catenius 2 pag. wrn)

This section and the one I got under in talk along a north and south line from Freeze Cut Mt. South- wards. 7470 ft. 1u 2p/monnt. & sandy limestone with fossil fish bones. 7 to 8 feet Stanford. gray lds 55.0st. travertine hds green and red shales mixed w.d. clay to comp'the above. 1ND Bar. * valley crown, Red beds seen in place Dip N.E. 16 deg clin. (this is part true for the other) {Red cliff} Yellow grunit chaly &feet 7075 ft. & 5 Lyth 5 Sandstone Sandstone Ruders. Red beds Red Beds The Mt continuing as to a line of my trace but part while crown c.s. 1400 North. Dip 6 deg N. 90. Shales & s. 7050 ft.

* Below the Triassic rim capped by limestone this is a very wide and long valley probably not less than two miles to the gulch at the base of the high hill or mountains. The thickness of the Triassic beds in this valley amphithe- ater may be considerable side as one farms southward we rise and drop over many smaller escarpments of Triassic shale and sandstones. The thickness may be not less than --- ' The dip of the strata in the valley bottom continues up over a very high hill or hill if not higher than Fringe Out Mt. I could find no place on this Out exposing lower strata than those in the gulch but and certainly a plain lower or possibly Paleozoic beds can be seen. Iawson found a great fault here along the western side upraising at least 1000 feet of white coarse sandstone and a thick limestone bluff. This series may represent Carboniferous.

(Continued from 2 page back) page contains a marine vertebra. The nature of the sediments, and particularly the churning condition and the whitest sandstone is evidence for littoral marine deposits. The Dinosaurs are found sometimes as if buried alive but payments of bones, broken sections occur. Entire skeletons or nearly entire ones are rare. Some of the bones show gnawing. The only evidence for fresh water seems to be the absence of marine life but fresh water life is also wanting. On the other hand if we hold these beds to be lake beds we must admit a lake encroaching on the sea followed by another littoral sea deposit. The latter feature is admissible but the former can- not be easily. Returned to Camp by five large crawlers today about 14 miles. I understand that according the following dates are dying in the area of this region for Dinosaurs. Osborne near Nine Mile Crossing.

Knight, Brillister and Field Collections in the Freeze Out Hills are the Carnegie people in this vicinity. Five parties. August 1-99 Tuesday. Camp, VI. After breakfast started with the majors for the Freeze Out Hills to Knight's dig- ings. Collected all the morning in the Marine Jurassic. In the late afternoon collected near the top of the Atlantosaurus beds at a locality discovered by Knight and Barton. This thin stratum (6 inches) yielded fresh water shells, 2 species of Helios, 1 planorbis, 1 physa, and possibly a fragment of leaf. This is an important discovery since the beds have all the appearance of marine maynot deposits. Collected a number of specimens. Mr. Barton will work out the fauna. A number of the party looked for

Ammonites. Found one and Mr. Young sawed one for me and 3 smaller ones! I believe this is all that were seen. A number found fragmentary Dinosaur bones. Prof. Knight has 6 or 7 claims in the region, one of which shows bones 1000 ft. in length. His main man is paid $5 to $12 per month. He was not spend this year more than $200. I don't believe there will be difficulty to locate bone locality, but probably the best arrangement will be to go partnership with Knight. The expense need not exceed 750-1000 dollars per year. The bones when taken out of the ground are practically cleaned but require glueing together. The expense to secure a good Dinosaur collection need not be expensive. Saw Martin today of Gillistons party.

"[illegible] Martin today of Brilliston party. He tells me he found cutaceous birds this Spring. Brilliston is to have just pick'd and the Martin is to write us. Our cynicist slot is in Burlington. There is every appearance that all the beds of the Freyge Out Hills are of very shallow water since many of the beds are ripple marked. Such have been seen in the Red beds where the limestone is also rippled. Same have been seen in the Devonian layers. The transition from the marine fauna to fresh water fauna is a gradual one and is not dissimilar for these fishes. I cannot believe there was a lake but rather an arm of the sea that was filled up and became a fresh water moran due to stream beds flowing from a highland. With the introduction of the Dalotus then are a physical change and introduction of coral angletion which precedes through to the begining of Laramian time when it was closed off of this region.

August 1, in my section of a Freeze Out Mt. measured with aneroid by T.C. Hopkins. Dip about 15° Dakota ss. about 70 feet Bore not sure so that the green shales may be a little thicker than here gives. Green shales with 2 layers of limestone Fresh water channels in middle Each about one foot thick, Then bedded sandstone 260 { 85 feet. 15 " Massive white ss. 100 " Sandy grey to buff shales 20 " Red & grey shales & ss, ripple marked 30 } Grey shales, Belemnites. 40 . Massive White ss 110 " Grey thin bedded ss. 30 " Red & Grey variegated beds shale and ss. 70 , Triassic limestone with fossils. 8 : Rem of amphitheater. The dry section for previous page

Aug 2-99 Wednesday Camp VI & VII Broke camp and left Trege But just by 9:30. Shipped to Larumie 2.3 acts of fossils. Hambach, Todd, Carlson and Culberton left for home. During the afternoon we passed another uplift of Jura-Trias in which the Triassic rocks formed cliffs from 700 to 800 feet high. The structure here is about as at Trege But Int. Took my pictures of these hills. Are an 40 M. from Medicago Bow. By 5:30 are camp at Sullivan's Ranch in Shirley Basin near high hills of granite and Paleozoic rock. As soon as camp is pitched I start out for the hills and find them farther away than I had expected. The structure is due clear in places. A rapid run of 1 1/2 hours revealed a number of strata which struck to be Cambrian and then Paleozoic strata with a fault cutting off the Jura-Trias.

"It rained again a little during our prepara- tions [illegible] and also during the night. Aug 3-99 Thursday, Camp VII & VIII It rains again this morning and we cannot get away before afternoon. It rains most of the morning so I start out to see the geology. After thrown in the rain it is plain that the succession here is the same as that of the Freye Out Hills only that the strata are more abruptly upturned and the sections somewhat lower. Collected a number of fossils from the Triorrie limestone which may be called the Freye Out limestone. At dinner one of the young men shows me Coral fossils which mark the presence of Madison limestone. He had a [illegible] for centractatus large var, Productus small corf at

lemula. Our camp is pitched near the base of Shirley Rts at Lullivans Ranch. Just north of camp about 1/2 mile in Saw-Tooth gulch today its name for the Mountain having a sandstone ridge which gives it a saw tooth edge or separated, Shirley basin includes one the far land between The Jura. This Rts on the ne side are Tertiary on the other. Above the Tertiary plane we see a flat topped Mt. locally known as Chall Mt. Mr. Lullivan says Frege Out Mt takes its name for the time when Fremont passed through here. He camper during the droughts in these Mts got their lost shoe shoe men by freezing. Therefore the Frege Out Mts, We leave Lullivans by 2 P.M and arrive on the same level of the Tertiary plains by 7 P.M. This afternoon we travel along the Shirley Rts passing the last of the Triassic — the Madison limestone and then the granite. After crossing out of Shirley basin we come on

to the Tertiary plain. Here a gust came from butts upon us. Then we strode miles for we down hill down the plain to Dry Creek and Camp near Mantzo ranch!! Aug 4-99 Friday, Camp VIII "The Dinosaur monarch of the Ats. The largest of all vertebrates When he drank he died of the fontains And no one knew what he ate He whist out with the Jurassic And did not come back again Shed home further in dying. Then Cheer for the big Dinosaur." Composed by St. Vincent Coe, Cedar Rapids, Ia., and sung by the Forest Fiddlers Club. To the tune of Red White Blue.

This morning by 8.30 after a heavy dew and fog we leave Monday Dry Creek for about five miles. All of this length the sage hens are very abundant and every body is out with his gun. Results about 100 chickens. They are very tame and often two or three shots will be fired at a bird before it flies. We then cross the higher land and by more afternoon granite hills, the Indian River into where we have lunch. Here another heavy rain overtakes us and by 2 P.M. we start for the Platte Cane where we arrive by 5.30. After leaving our mon day lunch place we pass around the granite hills and up a ridge onto the highest Tertiary strata. Here we have a grand view of the granite hills and in the distance to the north are Ferris Mt., Passing up to higher ground we eventually descend and to our left are an extensive area of Red beds dipping away and are un- conformable beneath the Tertiary beds. This view is picturesque and mountainous.

Platt Camp Cam. IV. about 2 miles. White Odenas Alpe Cam. I, Med. in hick Alpe 100th. Cam Brier Res. New York county phillips Odorico Raul Juncus Lupina matchers succent. odonite 256 Slate Columbia Red shales limestone 300 ft. Red Shale Hill.

Mary Carol IX from Chiklis, [illegible] Distal Testing plane side bars. Pal Oniscus share from photo 1 this: Am I [illegible] Anterior Triso limb lateral compartment [illegible] Jemmi Morini Jemmie Twin Jet. [illegible] [illegible] Testing plane Cavernous Current. White Trio Junt Triso R. 20.

Aug 5-99 Saturday Camp IX. Prof. Knights led the party from this camp to the Platte Canon about 2 1/2 miles distant. He left camp over the Tertiary and soon passed the shale sandstone of the lower Terrace of which I took a picture to show later today. Passing over 2 or 3 small hills we follow a dry creek which rapidly terminates into a canon and open to view over a splendid view of the massive canons of the Platte about 1000 feet deep. Our position is above the Cambrian on ledges of Admonious [illegible] see sketch. The granite in the bottom of the canon is a continuous mass and apparently a red granite. The following strata are thick series of thin beds of red, brick red, Cambrian strata. Over this are apparently conformable is a thick series of yellowish and red limestone and distinct with seams of chert. Towards the top regular beds of light bluish limestone appear in which Mr. [illegible] collected but found no fossil. Towards the base within yellowish beds

On the Ordovician are precisely unconformably lies the Carboniferous limit of the Madron age. This is all that can be seen in the Camp at the point of observation. On the way back to camp I ascended one of the highest Tertiary hills and looked back towards the Camp. This view shows a regular succession beginning on the left with the granites and passing to the right through Cambrian, Ordovician, Car., Trias, Jura, and some Rautin. All of these strata have a very uniform dip to the right and are outlined both in the foreground and in the distance by Tertiary Lake deposits. I have sketched this view and have sketches as seen from a high Tertiary hill between camp and the Camp. In the evening those talks with various mem- bbers. Mr Lawson tells me the granite has joints after exposure to air and shows no decomposition. It had been second class of all its decomposed and. Over this lies the so-called Cambrian bed, at the base, coarse conglomerate from towns

that so dont so far then The balance of the consists of quartzites and bits of carbonates. At the base of the so called Ordovician Mr. Lundback found a layer full of Fenestella and a species which is proof positive that this layer is not Ordovician but probably a continuation of the Mediam limestone Since these strata offer to conformably under the Carbonic the question is if what age are those iron hills? The only fossils seen are broad Fucoids. Aug 99 Sunday Camp IX. After breakfast the Crowns took us to the Little Camp of the North Platte about 6 miles by road from this camp. Here a hill 400 feet high is thrown up with the strike east and west. The river has cut a narrow gorge 400 feet dep and about 200 feet away to the North. exposing about 200 feet of white to fallrock sand. They are apparently older than the Cret.

Aug. 6th N.E. of me & lost Camp / N.W. 1/2 mile. Drifted his 8m. to foot after instruments of longitude.

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The general structure of this region is shown in the two previous sketches. Near the middle of the Canyon there is a hot spring in which a very green alga is growing. Aug 7-99 Windy Camp. IX, Entrance of North Canyon, To show a slight displacement. Look further. Red hut.

"Caul" "Austin from IX to dead Canes" along & toward Creek & Canal Line. Aug 7-99 Dip 100 N. There is not 100'200 ft. away but has to watch it. Sandy 515 Am. The bank is broken in one place the bottom was a thick hole, Sound for hid. 5200 Am. Marked and now dips? Dip Riffles & at an occasional turning point the bank of SS. Sound for d. "Thug" Boat "Tiger" Sound ford. Lone Creek Grounds. 3 am 1250. "Shaw how Joe" "Don's 3:25" from Indian Springs "Am 87/2 pm"

Distance from hill 2 to 3 about half mile However much of the distance is along the dip of the F.O. limit. A little to the N.E. of hill 2 to 3 the F.O. limit is raised about 200 feet higher. A small fault is here. See the following sketch of this. [illegible] [illegible] dip N.E. Fault fully continues dip here dip N.E. Fragile but breaks continuity here. Aug 1-99 G. to 20 incline 3, distance from the limit in part of which is marked [illegible] dip N.E. 1/2 m. depth of fault at limit of dip 7 E. [illegible] depth of fault, 200 feet depth of fault? [illegible] Cave [illegible] dip 3 E. Aug 1-99 [illegible] R. E. from [illegible] Creek [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

Nill's. Dad's Confirmation of the staff, A career directorial path. Day 7-99 2/6 about 150 m.t.n.e. It was of them using a shovel to pad out $50.00 for a new life tree faster than [illegible] Don. 3740 Jenny had an old rifle ball up $5, About 15 feet. Albin's now out on the river sand bank over which is the rising water. $200.00. [illegible] Riddles. Don. 3740 A long foot hike, Over a little hill see. Ralph you been at my house? Don. 1950 The water dry's so. Don. 1950 Behind the water bank, down to a small freshwater. $208.00 [illegible] Don. 375 [illegible] Don. 770 Golf. $25

"My wife & myself went to examine / Little Canyon, Dip an upward attitude 5½ Continuation. In the act of this addl. bottom Camp & see where my rough place Rantons house is located under this tree for th' all. He got in by a pickax & paint. 760 Gan 29th 510 am Route Gan 28th The south end of the Ranch. Rantons House Olden Ranch

Little Pummit. East end George Stretch considerably high up than in the other section of valley. 578 yards. Red beds, Sy. bryon Fissile shale and flints Red beds and Mianor 824m. 16 August 33 fathoms Red beds sandstone 53 bryons July 7-99. dip 70° to 60° S. to SE. 2,746 yards jellings s.s. Dart s.s. Darton shield 700 Roundhill A.C. depth about 150

"Aug 7-94. Along the eastern end of the hill th[rough which] the road to [illegible] from the Little Canon one can see the red beds and [illegible]. coming over the Towers crest. Passing over to the S, the same beds, suddenly from 500 feet above to the S., and in the distance the Benton is seen dipping about 10° N. The orthorust fault is most marked at the Little Canon. In this region beneath the Frey Outlet Limestone There must be at least 400 feet of Red Beds. Towards the bottom a number of thick gneissic sands having offsets and near the center where the first thickness of gypsum veins. My section can be said to follow the true Course of the Bluffs along a N. & S. line since this is the line of the two Canons. Am however not quite along that line. My picture of yesterday looking through the Little Canon at the Red Triassic bygone is taken from the Freyellet Ld knaps. Deane looking about a mile far strata dip 70° to S to this dipping about 10° N. Then go through the arch, Treats then left Coof for home today.

July Jun. 8 '99 Camp IX. Election of Dan and Theo as camp IX. The family continued on at this time in an odd but full of work [illegible] Jun. 10th, '99 In the middle up this trail, Judy July 23rd Dan went to the left Camp VII. Aug. 5th Red sandy soil Aug. 10. July 20 [illegible] July 25th July 28th [illegible] sand and gravel [illegible] Camp 60-70. Red sandy soil made a swampy spot [illegible] July 31st [illegible] Aug. 10th from here 6110

Aug 8-9 Tuesday. Camp IX. Mine left early this morning for home. Our Camp is now adjcent to mine. Climbed a hill this morning locally known as Barns Peak Hill. Alt Triamé. At 9.30 A.M started out with Knight for the head of Grand Canon of the Platte. Here one can see the Cambrian resting unconformably on the granite. Bar. 5675 above Cambria. Basally it consists of a very coarse conglomerate passing upwards into a coarse ss. The pebbles are quartz, Upper surface of granite clean and but thin covered by [illegible] rather to subsequent weathering. Last Canon Bar. 5975. It's in course ss throughout and now the top has large fucoids and what appear to be from Deltithus, then fills yellowist a purists dolomite which basally has Linn. Cat. Fossil. Spirife. All above the granite appears to be Carpathian. Reyning with the White Traces just the Bar. 6100 one descends over a bed of almost foot thick of redist, [illegible] confiscate out the White Trace. Then a very thick yellowist and place purists dolomite.

"On the low part part" there are "the beds and pillars in also. Henry Lane Can, just down to the so called Cantre. Considering also of the thickness is not less than 260 ft. Since the Bar is 1890. ^[illegible] ^[illegible] "Grand Herp." centimiles out of the hills & again beneath the red bed. At the upper Henry's point are numerous but poor. Down a eminence, a Hornfels. There is an unconfomity between the Cantre, and White Trios since at the head of the Canton tree in out much more than 260 feet of Carbon- junius while when one saw the Canyon & of the theclines is retrenched at 450ft. This I course includes the "[illegible]" since there at the base Land tract from Terestellus (large finds and in abundance) and Hornfels. At the Little Canton the thickness of Cantre seems to more like that at the head of the Canton and yet one detects them no unconfomity. At the Little Canton the top red bed seen at the head of the Grand Canyon is wanting otherwise the beds are alike. At this S.E. end of the Grand Canyon or entrance one can see the Terstary laws down

apparently conform to Cambria and on the next lies To the east on Carr. None S.E. it rests on the granite. To the N.W. & N. it lies in turn on the Texas, Jurra and Bentons. The White Trias is irregular in deposition on the red Carr. and in after strongly cross bedded. The fucroids of the so-called Cambrian are very massive usually in lengths of about four inches are one inch thick and high. They lay very thick in the Creek. Demeaux estimates the thickness of the beds above the Cambria as 227 feet. He found a Camara- phoria 47 feet above the sandstone. This species reminds mind of the Permin species. Another one had five fune plications. This red bed is only 6 feet thick while mine is at least 10 feet. This adds to the belief that White sometimes introduces the Trias.

Aug 9-99 Wednesday. Camp IX. Spent the morning and afternoon collecting marine Jurassic fossils in the hills towards and nearest to Little Canon. Found two good ammonites, traded with collectors. The Ammonites occur near the top of the marine Jurass along about the just majority of fossils. Those found at lower horizon appear to be drifted from this upper zone.

Aug 10-99 Thursday Camp IX, X. Descending from our camp at 6:00 to the Turkey Crest at 6:30; one again descend to the Indian Grove Huts at 6:30. While we are on the Crest we Take a last look back at the Grand Canyon County. Far in the distance are the Cist and from Cloud Tooting rocks and in the near foreground the tiles arranged hill of June 1 Toad eye, not as lofty green color. The Turkey hills are safe covered and down in the valley over the creek safe houses stand. In front of us are the Indian Grove Huts while on our right is the big ridge of Ferris Hill. In the valley along the stream are stood tall willows under one place cottonwood. On the granitic hills are lots of scattered trees of various kinds above used one thin one hill, juniper, cedar and oth em. "To the Glory God and sacred to the memory of S Morris Daley of Philadelphia Penn., born Oct 12, 1851, murdered by his guide July 23, 1888." Inscription on a granite cross to Dole who was murdered

hen by his guide, a tough who he engaged in Laramie, he killed him to secure this outfit. Two weeks later the murder was discovered and late at a said he was discovered in the penitentiary at Denver. The Mr. Hahn not to secure a guide for the Great Basin but in the mean time engaged this murderer. Bar. 6650. The place is in the India Basis out of the wagon crossing at a little stream. We arrive again about former camp off Trail Creek and camp for the night. Near Marty's Ranch. Aug 11-99 Friday Camp X. It was a cold night. The cook found ice in his water bucket this morning. We all start for the Tertiary hills to see erosion. Some years ago in a sound up in Bute, sir Ed Harper drove into camp three bear. The next day being Fourth of July the leader-

of the outfit during the land up continuance but the embigone concluded not to do during the night Patsy Netherton pressed the bits of the horses with bean grease. When the horses had him seemed and when to be pro- posed for the day the moment they smelt the bean grease away they bounded and when seemed too late for write that day. Arriving on the top of the Tutary hills we came on the rim of Batus' Hole where was a deep cut in before us. To our right is a isolated peak reminding some of the hero. This short is known as Three Creek Mt. In front of us deep in the bottom is a series of round down surrounding a temple like structure. It is a peculiar tail lands scene eroded out of varigated clays and surmounted by a thick bed of sandy clay and loose sandstones. I have a number of photos of it. It maybe called Knights temple. We are here at six P.M. the sun casts long shadows and we see a wonderful scene of erosion. It looks like a thousand acres

"One can be once surrounded by the sea of blue. One. One's great coloration is white in ask until the lower bits are reached, when purple, green, yellow and browns pre- dominate. These colors change with the clay and ones position very due to reflection. When two rims and before we descend one into the boat can see the area of the Indian Empire Hut and Ferry while on the left is near the hull of the ferry and the lost of the Foreign Boat! Mrs. Mrs visit today. Belle Hole takes its name from a Mr. Bate a hunter living here in early days. The Hole is drained by the Bote creek into the Platts. The estate are on J. Micean E. Olyre. At Ben quick a man for he just turned up, a few shod he shot when a second turned up. He also shot it when a third appeared. He shot at it and wounded it cannot hit it came a he cut him through his thigh. He still had one foot left on the other a he managed to let the gun under arm fire with his left hand.

"Aug 12 Saturday. Camp X, XI. It rains again early this morning delaying our start a little. We start at 9.30. Passed a chief herder with 3300 animals. Have a photo of his whole camp, the herd & bridgy. July 4th he made. I am to send his photo, but his address is empty now. Prof L S Ross, Dr G C Henty, De Mores I saw a young male antelope at a distance of 170 yards. The animal departed at once. It was following for its mother and came to us to see who we were. When we had our lunch at 3 P.M. we left directly south through the Freeze Out Hills & finally To the O.P.M on the thirty six, came at Elk Point creek its arms. We are nearly on the edge of Bates Hole. At 5 o'clock arrive at our camping place on the The place is known as Great Oyans Creek, An unknown man and Eastern edge of Bates Hole. The place was once formerly used by the Indians. Our water and wood must not be dug up the hill south. Before supper I go out to see Castleton Territory and come across a turtle and other lons. Tomorrow drive down to collecting.

Eocene 170- 125- 3500 Eo 200 Plioc 250 Pleis 800 Miocene 100 200 340 Aug. 13 Sunday. Camp. XI. Are Testing, Some har pictures of the towers. Above this horizon can be added 240 ft. of sandy clays like in the 14th. See next page. Titan to thirium Physo here found in 14th. Eocene Miocene 7325- Grany Slope 70 feet 7250 Day terrain Yellowist white silt clays or turrps. Lower half with numerous turtle bones and one large mammal bone. 100 ft. Red granite core 10 ft. Turtle here, Shelly near top Yellowist white silt clays overlying white towers. Jones name 125-feet. 7025 Mangafatid clays, seems predominantly with yellow and some reds. Fossil wood now begins 6975 ft. (am) with rugged beds of fine clay in sandstone. 6893 Bar. 175 feet yellowist white clays soft builders. 6500 Bar. Lowest level of creek 6600 Bar. The Red granite Core, appears to be a perfect anchor forming the clays and we definite it as plain burnt clay with the granitic conglomerate in core bedding.

For detail as to the Common Bates Hole County write to Bones Ernest Ferris, Ky. He is in this county since 1860 and is now about 60 years old. Knight regards him reliable. In the gulches along the inner side of the rim grow beautifully some Alpine Red Spruce (Picea douglasii) just 60 feet tall an 2ft thick. A pine is also abundant, Pinus murrayana. The common "sage brush" is Artemisia tridentata. The cotton woods we saw in the Grand Canyon County are Populus angustifolia, P. angustifolia. Both are used in Laramie as shade trees. The common Junipers we saw or most in the Canm county is Juniperus communis alpina & J. virginia. The red berried little bush amongst the sage brush in the gulch here is Chus trilobata. The quaking aspen we saw at Littleton is Populus tremuloides and the willow Salix nastriata. Along the small streams alder is common (Alnus incana virescens) and the mountain birch (Betula glandulosa). Grease Wood Cotocactus. In the afternoon went west along the rim

about its centre to the grandient mountain yet seen, In the upper zone found a fragment of Titan otherwises jaw with the last molar. Also was a large cervical and rib bones. The red granite only comes into view where absent but at about the same distance occur a lot of much coloured hard red clay leaving the bones. Turtle trous occurs above. Just a number of pictures to show the excavation all one of the Museum's kids. On the eroded sheer sides occur a number of joints which are gradually killed by erosion the day for the roots. Some of these trees seem perched on stilts, Prof Knight thinks that by cutting down a number of them and counting the young ones and the height of older ones and can get at the age of Datewhile, Taking the average growth of these trees an average over the crater at three feet and the average width of the hole can 3 miles to the centre one gets as a result an age of crater.

for the time ago 28,000 years. Aug 14 Monday Camp XI. To Whim S.E of Camp 7400 Bar. Titan, hd, 7300 base, slope near top of conglomerate clay 7025. Low end line reached 6600. At afternoon place 750 Bar with 200 feet to top, Conglomerate at 7460 about 10 feet thick. Footwall a limestone with Physisa about one foot thick and then an eml. 3 feet Sandy clay extends to top of 7450. At the northern face, there seems like from 200 to 300 foot more of strata than down camp partly this re elm shingle bar Chalk bar Freeze Det. 10 miles. 1st C with afternoon 7:40 Aug 14-99 Bates stole.

"The 'Two Bar' outfit saw a line of levels for irrigation purposes and learned that the entire site had a depth of 1700 feet. Returned to camp with Knight an Cornell very tired. Walked an climbed at least 25 miles. The erosion seen today is wonderful. In places there are ruined castles five range after another towering above for a height from 400 to 2600 feet. These between the castles are the bluish-white tules often studied with specimens in peines many of which have their roots exposed appearing as if standing on stilts. Collected the Stenthorium mineral here. Also some Physical photos. Aug. 15. Tuesday. Camps XI & XII. Crisle camp at 9.30 and camp this evening on Little Medicine River near 4 from mile crossing. We are now nearly at the end of the Tertiary. The bright red Tertiary is between us and the Laramie range. To day we again saw many sage chickens ad antelope. Also sheep herders. At their night camp around the major which is situated our rather the sheep are herded. Some little distance for the major a stick with a ray is stationed which scares away our coyotes for stealing lambs. The Flatheads say in two danger,

a thing for a coyote. The herdsmen are busy in discovering this. Coming over the Texan [illegible] plains today some a[illegible] near secured by one. A few more very fine. The man is manganese. Aug 16 Wednesday. Camp XII & XIII. It rained a little before two last night and all is wet outside of camp. After drying out we start at 9.30 A.M. for Box Elder Creek on the north side of Laramie Ruts. We arrive at our Camp at 1:30 P.M. beside a branch of the Box Elder Creek. a small tract surrounded by granite hills and an abundance of wood. Distance covered about 10 miles. The Texan this morning was seen to but against the granite hills. One coyote then climbed a short distance over the sage and before long another got one on the north side, Granite all about us. The country through this morning is almost impel[illegible] and yet there is an abundance grass for cattle. As we passed our camp we see remnants of an extensive ranch formerly owned by the Douglas, Driller, Santos Company. In this region was also the Laramie ranch. Both of these outfits once owned a few thousand head of horses and as many cattle.

In this [illegible] county in the fifties Mr. Johnson & Pete J Laramie came across a herd of a hundred or so Elk. The former on this tree cried one if he had had the assistance of the latter, the entire herd could have been captured. As it was one old beast who could not run as fast as the others shared fifty which made the horse man drop a little anorth that the herd should all avoid the trap. It rained again hard in the afternoon. Aug 17 Thursday. Camp XIII Looked around among the granitic rocks but found nothing of value besides a few specimens of specular iron in quartz. Then collected flowers for the balance of the day. Found an orchid. The hills about here are in places almost im- passable for fallen timber. A forest fire was here some year ago and now the young timber is starting again particularly quaking aspen an cottonwood. Rained again in the evening,

Aug 18 Friday, Camp XIII & XIV. Started for the Little Medjugia River were on the John Burnett ranch. Arrived about 10 p.m. on the old Oger Ranch. Collected plants in the afternoon. The hills around our camp have a very coarse conglomerate of granite derived from the granitic hills a very short distance away. In this conglomerate are very small bits of bone of Titanotherium. See the old Miocene shore line with the track stem marks, granite fragments derived from the cliffs against which dashed the sea. Aug 19 Saturday, Camp XV. This morning we start out for "Shee-mee Hills" about 2 miles N.E. of camp. In some places these hills are covered with ancient quarries which the Red Men used to secure his flints. One finds numerous spalling and an occasional rough blade. Here on these hills are found numerous beautiful calcedonic or quartz jaspers or rather agates along with much magnesian and moss agates, Banded Jasper also. All of my unlabelled Shee-mee's are from this hill. On these hills I found Seminalis Sultileta Eumorphalus, Myalium and

"Knight saw Dutgan and Mr. Fulmer collected Merifer cameratus. The age of these hills is therefore Upper Carboniferous. These hills lie at the base of the Laramie granitic hills and both maybe covered by the Tertiary. I have no doubts that the moss agates which are found in the Tertiary near here or further were derived from the Carboniferous. In the afternoon went to the "Red Hills" 1/4 h. at about 3 miles of this camp. Here we also found calcedonic stalactites but more finger shaped, he saw no fossils but I have no doubts that these brick red hills lie above the Upper Carboni- f erous and maybe either Permian or Triassic. This inference is based on the dip of the Carls. See in the morning. Collected about 400 pounds of minerals today.

Aug 20 Sunday. Camp XIV. Packed the material collected yesterday into four sacks. Into letters to Mrs. Mrs Stanton, Menifee Hills and Albion. Duncan brought in a safe trunk about 3in, in diameter which carried 75 trip. This is by no means the largest examples. Another ordinary eight trunk had 380 trip, having a diameter of 19 inches. From our camp in the back yard of John Burnett's Ranch we can see in the Southwest the Chiricahua and distinctly the San Tomas Mt near Sullivan's Ranch. Aug 21 Monday Camp XIV & XV. Everyone is busy packing the material collected. About 1700 pounds is left for John Burnett to take to Med. Bow. His P.O. is Little Medicine. We leave at 9 A.M. Have dinner at Sheep Creek by 1:30. Start again at 2:45 and camp for the night north of Toltec near Mr. Liddlepie's Ranch.

All day we drive on the west and south of the Laramid granitic hills either over the Tertiary or on the Cret., ? Permian, as thus the Triassic. At Sheep Creek the Triassic red beds are present in low sand ridges for some miles around. The beds are streaked in all directions by gypsum or seemday deposits. On we near again the granitic hills the Cret. appears. Aug 22-29 Tuesday Camp XV & XVI. As we retired last night the atmosphere was warm but before midnight the wind began to hard and this morning it is cool and windy, believe camp by 8 and reach Bear Creek near Ledge (cabout 2 and miles) eve Laramie Peaks by 12.30. Our camp is beautifully situated in a narrow valley surrounde by high grass and an abundance of flowers. A panel house was once situated here but now nearly entirely disappeared. In the afternoon I go with Cameron collecting plants first on the higher drier

ground at the along the small streams. Would late ferny plants. All the rocks of this region is a granite like that of the Indian River Grotto. And granite rich in orthoclase. The granite is cut by numerous dikes of dark rock. Of the latter there samples. Aug 23-99 Wednesday Camp, XVI. The night was a cold one, and this morning our water pans have ice & melted thin. At 8 A.M. we all start out to climb Laramie Peak. The elevation from camp coming and going is 6975 feet Bar. At the Beaver dam at the base of Laramie Peak in the largest stream the elevation is 7300. We select a place on the west side of the peak where a dikes has been eroded out with granite walls in boulder heaps having eroded as such a place. I found it very hard climbing and ascended to 8675. Actual height in 9020 Camera who was with me ascended to 9075. On our return to camp I learned that neither one of us had been near the top. Prof Rose and Tracy did go to the top which were about one

mile further on where we stopped ascending. The height is said to have been measured at about 10000 feet but Ross' climbing would indicate a lift of 9600 feet above sea or 2300 above the Bear's dam. On the two highest places on Laraine Peak Mr. Ross found inscribed in the rock the name of Charles Peabody 1859. The name of R. Hamp- ton was found punched with a knife into a tin can and into this Mr. Ross placed a piece of dope with his name -- L. S. Ross Des Moine Univ, Des Moines Iowa. Other names were Griswley and Steele. The descent was something terrific, became down a little more to the west which lead us through a pine forest and over mud falls trails. The granite has fallen down on the other Mt. side in great rounded boulders. After much study we reached the base at the Bear's dam over which we found our way through the cullings, this was the climax of the day. Then we had

from mile to walk to camp. Every one reached camp safely but my tride. I did not intend to climb the entire peak and by an accident I had Ross' lunch which consisted of biscuits and fried Prairie Dogs. The latter are not eaten by the natives. The meat is very fatty but otherwise the most wholesome. Aug 24-99 Thursday, Camp XXVI. The night was again cold and one pans this morning have ice as ind thick. Immediately after breakfast I go down the little stream from our Camp about half mile to study the novel of the beavers. These beavers come to be daming the streams once and more down streams to find just gnawing aspen trees which seem to be their chief food. They cut down the trees from an inch to three to 8 inches in diameter. They are gnawed about 18 from the ground on all sides of the trunk and the trees fall in any

direction. They then gnaw off the branches which are stripped of the smaller branches are all peeled or the ground to the cords were they are left for future use and food. These animals apparently cut through bark and the inner living layer which they peel off without even scratching the inner wood. The streets are usually less than 5 feet long. They have numerous canals leading to the trunk which come out from the large water pro- duced by the dam. These they divert about injected or even less in width and probably less than one foot deep. The large tree trunks are left in the clearing adjoining forest when they have fallen. In some places trees are gnawed considerably and are thus destroyed. I saw another tree which had partially healed such a wound, since he 2 photos. We both camp and left by 8:30. Shortly I met Mr. Frank Pajor, (born at P.E. by Henry J Preston Creek). This German born in Germany came to Denver about 1908 and settled shortly after around north of Cheyenne with the French troops.

"who came out from the Chippewa county in Maine, He came to Laramie Peak about 1875 and had numerous encounters with the Sioux Indian a number of whom he killed. He also met two named Drallace and Phil Sheridan. The latter came him to hunt and had on a skin clothes. He mistook him for a poacher. The Indians have named him 'laughing face'. This is very afford[?]side since he appears to be always laughing. If I ever write a paper on Laramie Peak it will be nice to drop of this man in the account. He camp on the North Fork of the Laramie River near Prayer crossing about 12 miles from Laramie Peak. He arrive here about 12 noon. In the afternoon we go not more than 3 1/4 miles east into Algol[?]ian crofts which are stand on bed and have a few trip dikes. In these hills we collect astorites and garnets. Also collected a few flowers. Near this camp is a little log school house the second one we have met on this trip.

presided over by Miss J.J. Hollway an enthusiastic young lady. Cornelia and Cameron photographed her but the class consists of three girls and me by. After harvesting is we she only have 8 profits. Her P.O. address is Antelope River School District 27 & Barrett by way of Fresh Creek Aug 25-99 Friday, Camp XVI & XVII. Left the North Fork of the Laramie at 9 a.m. and had lunch beside a small spring brook at 12 on the edge of the Tertiary. After leaving camp we passed a great thickness of Algonkian and then came to granite again. After leaving this cast, and the Red beds appear over all of which lies the Tertiary. Five miles down the Laramie from this camp (XIII) is the ranch of Senators Mrs. Gill and near by is the bank of the Burlington R.R. building. In this vicinity we also saw a very extensive "Round Up". The cattle were

"Kept together in two large bunches into which the cow boys ride and pick out the desired cattle and drive it to a bunch forming between the other two bunches. Gave Cornell $10" on account for pictures. Our camp is at Mr. Hills crossing of the Laramie River tree in vicinity and very little to distinguish the geology of the Laramie Plains. We are 20 miles from Fort Carson and about 60 by miles from the U.P.R.R. Aug 26-99 Saturday Camp XVII & XVIII. Broke camp and left at 8 A.M. The first thing to do was to cross the Laramie River which all the way men died without trouble except the one Squaw. One of our horses balked and got that the wheels back in the sand and then the horse lay tail down into the river. Our last resort was to change horse in the river and be pulled over. Prof Knight and Mr. Trahy on transter did this by going into the river. About noon Mr. Ross shot a badger and we had to dig him out of his hole.

Our camp is pitched at the head of Plum Laps Creek near the farm of Mr Rudgley. On the hill S.E. of his farm are openings in a granite hill where I collected graphite, iron and granite. The graphite with the iron is interbedded with the granite. This granite is also cut by pegmatite. Also collected north of Mr Rudgley house about half mile. Here we secured a granular white marble. to the east It stands on edge against a quartzite with othe lier pure marble followed by great mass of granite. The marble has streaks of Egons. To the west of the marble occurs an amphibolite schist. Sathor also occurs here. The age of the marble is not yet unknown but the occurrence of the rock when compared with this area leads Prof Knight to believe it to be Carboniferous. The granite may be a Cact. eruption. This may also explain the occurrence of graphite in granite. Collected a number of flowers here.

Aug 27 - 99 Sunday, Camp XVIII. He made my last camp and got away by 8 A.M. Had lunch on the Laramie Plains and arrived at Laramie by 3 P.M. In coming down the Laramie Hills it seems clear to me that Prof Knight's theory that the marble collects justly in the metamorphosed Carboniferous? dolomite. The structure seems like about as follows: [illegible] Share specimens of the marble with perfection and tell of the dolomite which I suppose furnishes the marble. Spent a party there after me at Knight's house and then to the hotel for a clean cloth and wash. Spent the night at Knight's house.

1 Loring North West along th tJ & th Points thru America sandstone bluff out th main June in the foreground Probably 2 plate or this. 2 On the Freyents crest again, Leftly to E at the climax is an main J.08. 3 On the F.O. crest are likely at the front for part of the Tresuries 4 On the crests looking back to the red bluff and others to Freys Out Mt. 5 Eastern Bluff F.O.M. along the late June 6 SE. end of Freys Out Mt. along the late June. Patay Metherton Ed Harper. Agreed to by America & Co. for a set of photographs.