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 Round Butte Trip

Beautiful, balmy morning, west wind. P. G. Worcester, H. A. Aurand, R. M. Butters and I left by C. & S. R.R. at 9:50, 27 minutes behind time. Round trip fare to $2.50 each. Reached at 11:25. Got dinner at. Left for at 1:15, reached there at 1:40, round trip fare 60 cents. Got rooms at, then started north along the beet sugar spur to a cut ranging to 20 feet in depth, through probable Pleistocene deposits, laid over Pierre shales as indicated by fossils found in the bottom of the cut at one place - etc. The Pleistocene at base of walls of cut is sandy, scarcely consolidated, in color resembling the Fox Hills sandstone, enclosing some pebbles, with some intercalations of pebbly strata in higher horizons, capped by the usual coarse, unconsolidated conglomerate, including quartz, jasper, fossiliferous Pierre concretions, Carboniferous crinoidal limestone boulders etc. In one place were numerous