Field Notebook: Wyoming 1899
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The flow of money into the Waddingham's Cafe has taken them away from Fossil, then it is all gone they are of an return. Aug 31 Thursday, In the region about Opal the strata are horizontal in low hills. They are made up of soft greenish shale with occasional hard Waddingham material probably SS. Farther on where the strata come like various tilted and much SS prevails. From Hansford Red SS dips at 20° appears and at Kemmerton coal is mined, the dip there seem s to indicate that the coal lies underneath the Fossil hills. Towards Branyan the Opal hills continue only in low hills with occasional red tinge. The same greenish or light bluish beds continue to Green River where in the "Toll Sots" they underlie the top dark brown etams SS. This morning before dawn time took a hasty survey of the high hill to the east of Fossil. There were the Waddingham quarries.