Page:Field Notes of Junius Henderson, Notebook 2.pdf/46

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granite thus: ((drawing in field book)). Lunched at Owl Canyon Owl Canyon, Colorado at noon and started on at 1 p.m. 1st gulch S of Engleside (sic) I left the team with Nellie and started back of the Lyons ridge on foot. In Fountain-granite contact just S of gulch is a white quartz outcrop, strike N of W, large chunks of quartz rolling down over the Fountain. It makes a ridge. Fountain and Lyons same here as at Owl Canyon Owl Canyon, Colorado, Fountain barely standing up on granite slope. From there south to where the strike changes abruptly to the west the Fountain, if it exists west of the thread of the valley, is covered with soil on the granite slope. It appears at the base of the Lyons escarpment all along, but, as northward, is weak and usually but little seen in the valley or the granite slope. Reached