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foot of the White Mountain Range for fifteen miles or more. 

 Near Black Canyon they occur well up the slopes, and traces of 

 them were seen north of a line passing through Bishop Station ; 

 to the south they appear for a short distance beyond the 

 entrance to Waucobi Canyon. As seen from Alvord Station, the 



Fig. I. Map showing the general relations of Soldier and Waucobi Canyons to 

 Owens Valley and the Inyo Range. (Taken from Lieutenant Wheeler's map.) 



beds extend from the south side of Waucobi Can^'on north 

 across the broad embayment to Soldier Canyon, and westward 

 from three to ten miles, rising with the slope to the foot of the 

 encircling ridge of Cambrian quartzites. {b, Fig. 2.) The beds 

 at the Devils Gate in Waucobi Canyon are 2250 feet above the 

 lowest bed exposed east of Alvord, and appear to be the same 

 as those at the lower level ; they extend on up the canyon to a 

 level 3100 feet above the valley bottom at Alvord Station and 

 within about three miles of the stfmmit (below c, Fig. 2) at the 

 head of the canyon. T 



