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Saturday

Started with Nellie Rust, Lillian McCracken and Mrs. Henderson at 8:10 for mouth of with team and surrey from Fields and Lucas’  stable. Took road and reached at 10:15. Fountain conglomerate and sandstone there several hundred feet thick and well exposed north of creek just above where we reached. Chiefly hard, coarse red sandstones with bands of coarser conglomerates in places very rich dark red with white patches as if from leaching out of iron oxides. S of creek dip N. 63˚ E = 30˚ near contact and 38˚ near top of Fountain. N of creek Fountain exposure is 150 paces horizontal extent E and W with dip 30 to 40 degrees easterly. Formation strongly arkose, with some traces of