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Meeker, Colo. Meeker, Colorado, Aug. 10, 1909 August 10, 1909

Rained again during night, but bright and warm this morning. At 8 a.m. I started to the bluffs north of town alone. Stopped at the Review office to see editor J. L. Riland. He gave me specimens of alleged brown and black gilsonite from Piceance Creek Piceance Creek, 30 or 40 miles SW of Meeker Meeker, Colorado, and uranium and vanadium impregnated sandstone from Coal Creek Coal Creek, Colorado, 16 miles NE of Meeker Meeker, Colorado. I noted two brick kilns starting west of the school house, a few hundred yards from the base of the bluffs. They are using surface clay, which is probably upper Mancos decomposed. Have made few bird notes because