surface* Great masses of the walls have fallen in. 
The great boiling lake above with its thousand 
gorgeously colored treeaces is as wonderful and perfect as 
ever. Its magnificence beggars description. There are 
also other fine springs in the group* 
About 2 o’clock Gannett and Mushback came down the 
trail leading each a mule. They were on the jump and we 
hastened to join them* The mules were intended to fetch 
Kelsey and Ladd to the upper basin. Norris’ force returned 
to camp with us, --the first passengers over this part of 
the new wagon road. 
In the evening went back to a little butte near camp. 
Found it composed of an exceedingly irregualr conglomerate . 
The strike is nearly east and west. The dip some 50° to the 
north. The pebbles and sand are nearly all --or all-- of 
volcanic origin. The larger masses pretty well rounded 
away may be as much as S or 10 inches in diameter. Mixed 
in with the coarse conglomerate and fine conglomerates are 
whitish and hellowish sandstones of all degrees of fineness 
of texture down to the very finest. (see specimens) These 
fine sandstones seem to be mixed in with the conglomerates 
in pocket 3 rather than as continuous* beds. 
There are half a dozen or more hat springs In the little 
wash between this butte mid camp. There are two buttes north 
of thisand close to it while another stands a quarter of a 
mile below. The rock is probably the same. The walls of the 
