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 folds. Then we travelled north to, at Col. E. E. Hughes’ country place. There we found lower Carboniferous fossils in a sandstone at about the same horizon as at, just at top of a red sandstone very dark red at very top and overlaid by a very coarse pure white sandstone or conglomerate. A few feet of shales intervene, the weathering of which has tumbled the white sandstone into blocks tilted in all directions, so that we could not tell whether they were conformable. Reached at 7:15.

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Up at 5 a.m., shaved, had breakfast at 6 a.m. Started for at 8 a.m. on horseback. Reached at 2 p.m. About  2 or 3 miles E of ranch found fossils about 350 or 400 ft. above granite in red calcareous sandstone, overlaid by strong brecciated limestone. Base of sedimentary is hard