62 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
there are a number of similar ravines which probably have the 
same origin. 
Experiments which are apparently successful have been made 
in hardening this banded gypsum for interior finish. The 
owner of the cave hopes soon to establish a business devoted to 
the manufacture of gypsum finish. 
Two miles west of the cave, near the top of the hill, there is 
an exposure of 15 feet of white gypsum which, .according to 
barometric measurements, is about 30 feet higher than the cave 
gypsum. One mile further west a deposit of banded gypsum 
covered with buff shales was found in a well on the Wuthnow 
farm. The well was drilled 8 feet into the rock and then aban- 
doned. On the hill one-quarter mile to the north is an old 
gypsum quarry 3) feet higher than the gypsum in the well. 
The rock as exposed is 5 feet thick, dark colored and irregu- 
larly crystalline in the upper portion, and it is covered with a 
layer of black gypsum. This deposit and the one on top of the 
hill noted above were the only outcrops noted in the third or 
upper gypsum horizon. 
In the well on the Rhodes farm, three miles west of the Wuth- 
now farm, the gypsum was found 40 feet iower than at the cave, 
six miles east and 60 feet lower than the Hope quarry, eight 
miles to the northeast. This layer outcrops at the same level 
in the ravine below the well, and it is compact and banded. 
Over it, is found the buff shaly limestone as at the other places. 
The dip from Wuthnow well gypsum to Rhodes gypsum is nearly 
12 feet to the mile. | 
One mile south of Rhodes deposit the gypsum again outcrops, 
on the Banker farm, and is found for some distance further south. 
It also outcrops on the Tucker farm, one mile east, at a level 
nearly 15 feet higher. One mile northeast of this exposure is a 
heavy deposit of gypsum 10 feet higher, close to the German 
church. 
The deposits of gypsum rock do not attract much attention 
through this central area, as the gypsum earth deposits are 
easier to work and are regarded as more valuable. The lower 
horizon, or Solomon gypsum, seems to be more favorable for 
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