folds. Then we travelled north to Bear Creek Canyon, at Col. E. E. Hughes’ country place. There we found lower Carboniferous fossils in a sandstone at about the same horizon as at Box Elder, 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 Dakan ranchat 7:15.
Perry Park, July 23, 1908
Up at 5 a.m., shaved, had breakfast at 6 a.m. Started for Manitou Park at 8 a.m. on horseback. Reached Fish Ranch 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
