Loveland , Aug. 15,1908
Started west at 7 a.m. with team from Branson and Charlton’s stable . Roads quite muddy. Reach gulch where home supply and Handy ditches leave foothills at 8:15.
At top of Lykins red beds are of massive pink sandstone, overlaid by slightly pinkish but nearly gray massive transition (in color) beds, all weathering roundly, above which is a gray slabby sandstone weathering in low angular blocks and benches, some layers pitted by dissolution of greenish clay or lime nodules ¼ to ½ inch in diameter. Yellowish sandstone and one foot angular limestone found above this at Box Elder is missing here. Above this is a hard, bluish, thick bedded limestone, outer surface with calcite streaks probably 20 ft. thick showing in several ledges in talus slope, overlaid by
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