NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQI5 27 
The camp site in the Lamar Valley was one of unusual interest 
and beauty (fig. 28). The high hills to the south show the rock 
cliffs containing silicified wood, calcite rosettes, and beautiful speci- 
mens of chalcedony. A little way from the camp the party met 
with a large herd of bison grazing freely in the broad open valley, 
also herds of elk, bands of antelope, a few black bear, and an oc- 
casional wolf. 
Fic. 40.—Wheat farms on slopes farther from mountains shown in Fig. 39, 
where there is a commingling of dry farming and irrigation. Richness of the 
soil is indicated by shocks of wheat. 
On leaving the Park, after 675 miles of travel with the camp 
outfit, the party proceeded down the West Gallatin River Canyon, 
stopping to examine the section of Cambrian rocks at the mouth of 
Squaw Creek (fig. 36). The next permanent camp was made 
in Deep Creek Canyon, 17 miles east of Townsend, Montana, where 
the extensive pre-Cambrian sections of the Big Belt Mountains are 
beautifully shown. About two tons of pre-Cambrian specimens were 
collected in this vicinity, before the storms of late September closed 
the season’s field-work. 
