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H. !•'. BAIN — GEOLOGY OF THE WICHITA MOUNTAINS 



Medicine Bluff creek, 5 to 7 miles wide, and trending with the mountains. 

 The granites immediately south of this valley form the north range of 

 the mountains proper. They extend on the east almost to Cache creek 

 in a series of detached knobs, rising to the west and culminating in mount 

 Cumniings. The latter is separated from mount Scott, the highest peak 

 in the mountains, 2,305 feet above sealevel and about 1.500 feet above its 

 base, by an open pass. Mount Scott extends for about 5 miles to the west 

 with decreasing altitude, and is separated from the next peak, mount 

 Sheridan, by a. narrower, higher pass. From mount Sheridan west to 

 Haystack mountain, which lies a little east of south from Rainy moun- 



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Figube 3. — Sketeh of Lower Namows in Raggedy Mountains. 

 Showing semi-detached character of the peaks. 



tain and is in the same locality as Tymatee mountain, as located by 

 Vaughan, there are no passes proper. About midway the granite runs 

 out to the north nearly 4 miles and culminates in the striking peak 

 called Saddle mountain. From Haystack west nearly 10 miles is a broad 

 mesquite plain, extending south across the entire mountains and sepa- 

 rating the main Wichitas from a series of detached and irregularly placed 

 mountains extending to the Red river and known locally as the Raggedy 

 mountains. 



South of mount Scott and the granite range of which it is the most 

 conspicuous feature is an open valley 3 to 5 miles across, broken by 

 irregular granite and porphyry knobs rising 150 to 400 feet above the 

 general level of the plain and closing in to the west. Signal mountain 



