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Little Beaver Creek, Colo. Little Beaver Creek, Colorado Aug 19, 1909 August 19, 1909, Thursday

Broke camp at 10:45 a.m., drove back to stone school house 5 miles east of Meeker Meeker, Colorado, then turned southeast up White River. Saw a few lark buntings Calamospiza melanocorys east of school house. Partly cloudy. Where we camped there were no trees but scrub willows Salix. When we entered the canyon we found narrow leafed cottonwoods Populus angustifolia etc. in the bottom lands cedar cedar and scrub oaks scrub oak on canyon slopes. Dakota formation forms escarpment on south side of river, sandstone at top. Found greenish hard shales or fine grained sandstone as at dome east of Meeker Meeker, Colorado- possible Jurassic or maybe medial Dakota (?). Typical Morrison limestones, sandstones and greenish and maroon shales lie