120 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
about seven miles east of the occurrence reported by Mr. Gould.t 
Professor Cragin has also reported loose specimens of Gryphaea and 
Exogyra in the western part of Harper county’. In the northwest- 
ern part of Turkey creek township, Barber county, both the Kiowa 
shales and Cheyenne sandstone are represented though the thick- 
ness is slight, as reported by both Beede and Gould. From there 
to the point northeast of Medicine Lodge a line of Comanche based 
mainly upon data furnished by Mr. Gould, is represented as separat- 
ing the Red-Beds and the Tertiary. 
In the northwestern part of Barber county the best outcrops of 
the Comanche series are along the Barber and Kiowa-Comanche 
county line which may be readily reached from Belvidere or Sun 
jity. Itis in this region that the Comanche series was first studied 
by Professors Cragin and Hill and the writer. 
Along the Medicine Lodge river in the vicinity of Sun City the 
first steep bluffs both north and south of the river are capped by the 
Medicine Lodge gypsum, above which is some 80 feet of the upper 
Red-Beds when the base of the Cheyenne is reached which has a 
thickness of 52 feet, above which the Kiowa shales extend to the 
top of the high hill in the southeastern corner of Kiowa county 
which Professor Cragin has named Stokes Hill. The top of this 
hill which, according to the Medicine Lodge sheet of the U. S. topo- 
graphic map is 390 feet higher than the river at Sun City, is about 
five and one half miles west of Sun City with frequent exposures 
cf the rocks on the sides of the steep bluffs or in the draws so that 
it forms a good locality to study the Comanche formation and the 
upper part of the subjacent Red-Beds. This is the locality so 
well described by Professor Hill under the name of the Black Hills 
section,® and the one first studied by the writer. 
Section north of west from Sun City to the top of Stokes Hill. 
In general, the section published by Professor Hill agrees closely 
with the author’s; some slight changes only occurring in reference 
a 1 Baw Cragin, Bulletin Washburn College Laboratory Natural History, Vol. 
» D. . 
2 Ibid., p. 80. 
8 On account of the term Black Hill being applied to several hills of this 
character in Comanche and Kiowa counties, Professor Cragin has proposed the 
name Stokes Hill for the one under consideration (American Geologist, Vol. X VI, p. 
63, f. n.) restricting the name Black Hill to the one first visited and described by 
him in the northeastern part of Comanche county in the vicinity of Hell’s Half Acre 
on Elk creek (Bulletin Washburn College Laboratory Natural History, Vol. 1, 1885, 
p. 90; and American Geologist, Vol. XVI, pp. 3879, 380). 
