Round Butte Trip
Boulder, Colo. Mch. 17, 1910
Beautiful, balmy morning, west wind. P. G. Worcester, H. A. Aurand, R. M. Butters and I left Boulder by C. & S. R.R. at 9:50, 27 minutes behind time. Round trip fare to Ft. Collins $2.50 each. Reached Ft. Collins at 11:25. Got dinner at Orpheum Cafe. Left for Wellington at 1:15, reached there at 1:40, round trip fare 60 cents. Got rooms at Hotel Wellington, 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 - Baculites 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
