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many places, though there is but little on the higher mesas. Following up creek to first ranch house, we then turned west and in old R.R. grade cut at edge of mesa we found Hygiene sandstone with typical fossiliferous concretions, as at Fossil Ridge Fossil Ridge, Colorado, containing Baculites compressus Baculites compressus, Inoceramus vanuxemi Inoceramus vanuxemi, sagensis Inoceramus sagensis and oblongus Inoceramus oblongus, Heteroceras sp. Heteroceras etc. Then passed up the gulch cutting into the mountains west of there. Found quartzite underlying Fountain, dip of Fountain E 38˚, dip of quartzite SE 39˚. To the west of this is Fountain again, dip E 70˚ and a few rods SW same thing dip W ---˚, possibly fallen down. Dodds reported quartzite again W of this. “Dakota” here with 25 ft of conglomerate at base, then 100 feet covered, then 5o ft. sandstone. Morrison sandstone and shales