GRAND CANYON TRIP 
1880 
On my return from Europe on July 9, I had a very 
pleasant time greeting friends and showing the drawings and 
water colors made while abroad. Met numerous people of impor- 
tance. Showed my sketches at the Cosmos Club, and Messer 
showed them to his school at the Corcoran Gallery. 
Soon, however, as expected, I found my services re- 
quired as a geological assistant on the newly organized geo- 
logical survey with Clarence King as Director, and was delighted 
to find that I was booked for a trip to the Grand Canyon of the 
Colorado to join Cap tain C. E. Dutton who was engaged in the 
survey of that land of marvels. As the season for work there 
was passing, I had to be off at once, and Mr. McChesney, pay- 
master of the Survey, arranged my transportation. I left 
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Washington on July 3, 1880, at eight in the morning. Met 
S.H. proprietor 
Mr. Kaufmann/of the "Star" on the train and had x long tails with 
him. Traveled byway of Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, and Ogden. 
Beached Salt Lake on July 10$ thence reached Milford and took 
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stage to St. George, which place was reached August 13. Got 
lodgings in the house of Apostle Snow. Plenty of fine grapes 
and other fruit, 
August .14, at St. George: ?/alked out and climbed the 
basaltic mesa a mile west of town, Bound fossils beneath the 
lower bed of basalt and made numerous other observations. From 
