114 lltr Ami'ricd II (jioloijist. l'i-liiii;iiy, 18»:i 
rivers, al'tiT liaviiig ineiUioiied other localities outside of Texas, lie 
says, " So the Pecos and lied rivers are cut off from inontanal connec- 
tion by the liigher valleys of the Canadiati and Kio (irande. Other 
rivers of Texas are seen to have similar origin, though sonie have 
what might lie called a mountain supply, as they rise near the isolated 
mountain groups of the Sierra P>lanca and Wichita mountains." 
The (jupstion would naturally arise, does a n)an know enough about 
a country to venture to write a report about its artesian water supply, 
who nnikes such glaring mistakes as to put the Rio Grande between 
the mountains and the Pecos river ; or who will have any of the 
rivers of Texas getting their supply of water from tlie Wichita mount- 
ains, which are on the north side of lied river, and east of the east 
line of the Texas Panhandle; or who will have any river getting a 
supply from Sierra Blanca when there is no water there for any pur- 
pose, the nearest supply being the Rio (Trande? P^ven the party of 
the State (ieoh)gical Survey liad to be supi)lied with water left for 
them by railroad otiicials along the line of the railroad during the 
time the jiarty was working in that district. 
Mr. Haj' also makes the lirazos river a tributary of the " Father of 
waters." ( See ])age 15. ) 
It will be found upon examination, that he knows as little of the 
geology of North Texas as he does of its physical geography. 
He begins by saying (page !»): The strata in the earth's crust 
that it is necessary to know the names of in this investigation are 
arranged as groups and sub-groups as follows: 
Ceno/oic : ^fesozoic — Continued. 
Quarternary or Pleistocene: Trinity. 
Drift. .lurassic. 
Loess. Triassic. 
Tertiary: Paleozoic: 
Pliocene. ( 'arbonilerous including Pi'rmian. 
Miocene. Devonian. 
f>ocene. Silurian. 
Mesozoic : Cambrian. 
Cretaceous : .\ rchaean : 
Laramie. Schists. 
Montana. Gneiss. 
Colorado. (iranite. 
I>akota. 
The arrungeauMit of the table as printed would lead to the infer- 
ence that he knew nothing of the recognized value of the term group, 
since in it he makes the Tertiary system of equal value with the 
Cenozoic group of which it forms a part and puts the Trinity division 
of the Cretaceous system on e(|iuility with such systems as the Creta- 
ceous, Jurassic and Triassic. 
The further statement on the same i)age that " the left luind column 
has its terms l)ased ujion the remains of life, fossils found in the 
rocks." is simply ridiculous, if originally intended to apply to this 
table. 
