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pecting to march to the San Juan 3G or 35 miles away. We 
passed by the Indians corn fields, some damp patches in 
which they have planted a little corn, less than an acre 
in all. It grows in clusters, ICO stalks In a hill. It will 
soon be in silk if the dry weather does not cut it off com¬ 
pletely. Jackson and Harry rode on ahead to look for water; 
found some at the ruined castle on the Hovenweep, but none 
where we camped for the night. At the south base of Ute peak 
beginning in the creek bed we get the following section; about 
two hundred feet of sandstones, reddish purple, Irregularly 
bedded, thick and thin lamination and much impurity. Clay pock 
ets of speckled and rotten patches, etc. 150 feet pale, grayish 
red, massive sandstone corresponding probably to the yellow 
sandstone of the border country on the east next to the plains. 
300 or 400 feet of yellowish and purple sandstones somewhat 
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resembling No. 1. 200 or 300 feet of the variegated marls, 
referrably doubtless to the upper Jurrassic; 80 or 100 feet 
of the lower part of the yellow sandstones of the mountain-- 
the escarpment of the upper tables. These beds seem to dip 
slightly to the south, pitching under Ute mountain as indicated 
in the sketch. No. 1 joins the trachite for two or three miles 
along the north base of the mountain. The shale only seems to 
have been folded up against the intruded lava--no fossils found 
