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fusion on the knolls, buttes, and spurs, and in the ravines 

 and gulches, while the ground seems to be everywhere 

 studded with gems consisting of the broken fragments of 

 all shapes and sizes and exhibiting all the colors of the 

 rainbow. 



There is no other petrified forest in which the wood as- 

 sumes so many varied and interesting forms and colors, 

 and it is these that present the chief attraction to the gen- 

 eral public. The state of mineralization in which much of 

 this wood exists almost places them among the gems and 

 precious stones. Not only are chalcedony, opals, and 

 agates found among them, but many approach the condi- 

 tion of jasper and onyx. 



