102 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
and red sandstones” which are separated unconformably from the 
subjacent Red-Beds. He stated that “the brilliant coloring of these 
sandstones and their weathering into vertical cliffs and isolated ‘pul- 
pit rocks’ render the district one of remarkable variety both in color 
and form!.” The above sandstone is evidently the one described by 
Professor Cragin as Cheyenne. The overlying fossiliferous shales 
are mentioned by Professor Hay as occurring in the hills north of 
Sharon, Barber county, and beyond the Barber and Comanche line, 
while “Specimens of the shells were given to us from localities near 
the northwest corner of Barber county and the neighboring pari 
of Edwards [now Kiowa county]. The bed at the three localities 
where we observed it was composed almost entirely of small shells 
in a matrix of limy conglomerate, the pebbles being very few, the 
shells making up three-fourths of the mass*.” In correlating this 
bed Professor Hay stated that “with reserve we are inclined to place 
the stratum called the ‘Shell: bed’ * * * in the Fort Benton 
group.”> Professor Hay referred to St. John’s hesitation in corre- 
lating this bed with the Benton of northern Kansas, and he 
also referred to Professor Hill’s description of the Lower Cretaceous 
in Texas “to which has been given the name of the Comanche series, 
and the identity of the Barber county beds with the Comanche 
series has been suggested. If it existed it would apply not only 
to the shell beds, but to the sandstones below them [Cheyenne], as 
they could not be Dakota if higher beds were a still lower Creta- 
ceous. Before giving up the Dakota age of the sandstones (one: 
bed in particular) I will have to reexamine the region, for it is 
certain the isolated patches at Sharon and Kingman are Dakota.’ 
Cragin, 1891.—In this year Professor Cragin published an article 
entitled “Further notes on the Cheyenne sandstones and Neocomian 
shales.”° Professor Cragin states that he had examined the 
Comanche of northern Texas in company with Professor Hill and 
agreed with him in correlating No. 5 of his Belvidere section with 
1 Ibid., p. 27; see Fig. 5, p. 28, which represents a section about six miles south- 
west of Sun City where the Dakota is represented as resting on an eroded surface 
of the Jura-Trias. 
2 lbidkeps28: 
3 Ibid., p. 27. 
4 Ibid., pp. 29, 30. 
5 American Geologist, Vol. VII, March, 1891, pp. 179-181. 
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