148 



Kilometres retreats is indicated between Young andWatrous, 

 a distance of 14 miles (22-4 km.), by a series 

 of morainic hills of boulder clay of drumlin-like 

 form with a trend to the northeast. 



372 m. Semans — Altitude 1,844 ft. (562 m.). At 



598 km. Semans the bare plains are left behind and hilly 

 country is entered which is fairly well wooded. 

 The surface veneer is more or less of boulder clay 

 and is rather thin. At Punnichy 20 miles 

 (32 km.) to the east, the exposures appear to be 

 the top of the Pierre shales or the Foxhill from 

 the yellow sandy clays which outcrop near 

 Touchwood station. Just west of Touchwood, 

 the railway follows a series of lake basins that 

 appear to be in an old and abandoned valley. 

 The country is fairly open to Melville. 

 265 m. Waldron — Alt. 1,739 ft. (530 m.). Waldron 



426 km. lies near the edge of the wooded country which 

 the railway enters in part and in part follows 

 the southern edge. Welby is the last station 

 in Saskatchewan and is situated on the plateau 

 above the Qu'Appelle. From here the line des- 

 cends along the side of the valley to the bottom 

 land of the Assiniboine liver passing Lazare 

 at the confluence of the two streams. 

 186 m. Uno — Altitude 1,370 ft. (427 m.). One mile 



299 km. (i-6 km.) east of Uno station, the Millwood 

 shales outcrop along the side of the Assiniboine 

 valley and continue east to the crossing of 

 Birdtail creek. The shales are dark grey in 

 colour with ironstone nodules referred to the 

 lower part of the Pierre.*^ 



The fossiliferous beds contain Baculites com- 

 pressus, Pteria linguiformis , Inoceramus tenuili- 

 neatus, Inoceramus sagensis, Nucula, Lucina 

 occidentalis, Entalis paupercula, Scaphites nodo- 

 sus, Hylobiites cretaceus and some 15 species of 

 Radiolaria. 



Arrow River — A short distance east of the 

 station several cuttings show a light grey shale 

 which is probably the Odanah. 



a Tyrrell, J. B., Geol. Surv. of Can., Vol. V, 1890-91, p. 213 E. 



