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Loveland Loveland, Colorado, Aug. 15,1908 August 15, 1908 Started west at 7 a.m. with team from Branson and Charlton’s stable Branson and Charlton's Stable. Roads quite muddy. Reach gulch where home supply and Handy ditches leave foothills at 8:15. At top of Lykins red beds are of massive pink sandstone, overlaid by slightly pinkish but nearly gray massive transition (in color) beds, all weathering roundly, above which is a gray slabby sandstone weathering in low angular blocks and benches, some layers pitted by dissolution of greenish clay or lime nodules ¼ to ½ inch in diameter. Yellowish sandstone and one foot angular limestone found above this at Box Elder Boxelder Creek, Colorado is missing here. Above this is a hard, bluish, thick bedded limestone, outer surface with calcite streaks probably 20 ft. thick showing in several ledges in talus slope, overlaid by