186 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
Section of hill five miles west of Smolan. 
No. Feet. 
4, Ledge of brownish-red sandstone forming top of hill. 2—55 
Similar in lithologic appearance to the Dakota. 
3. Mainly yellowish, bluish and slightly reddish argilla- 50—53 
ceous and arenaceous shales. 
2. Dark brownish-red sandstone with Mentor fossils. 
Thickness undetermined. 
IL, ikl arly We) LOWUEE SOIL SENNCKOINE 554.6445 00566040600 o— 3d 
The above section shows positively that above the Mentor sand- 
stone at this locality there is a considerable thickness of soft shales 
that in lithologic appearance differ but slightly from those found 
beiow the Mentor. Mr. Hall, a resident of the northern part of 
Washington township, informed the writer that this lot was known 
as the John M. Danielson pasture and from this locality Professor 
Mudge collected the Mentor fossils locating it as “in the vicinity of 
Bavaria.”! Meek also spoke of the locality as “tweive miles south- 
west of Salina.’ 
We are indebted to Prof. A. W. Jones of the Kansas Wesleyan 
University at Salina, who accompanied us on our trip to the Mentor 
beds, for directing us to the Berwick Hill, the locality four miles 
west of Smolan and the one north of the Saline river five miles north 
of Salina. The writer understands that since that time Professor 
Jones has discovered new localities of Mentor fossils and that he is 
preparing a paper describing their occurrence. 
Near the four corners one mile south of the locality, four miles 
west of Smolan, on the northeast corner section 28, Washington 
township, the Mentor fossiliferous sandstone was found. This is 
not as favorable a locality for collecting as the one a mile to the 
north. One mile southwest of the above locality on the southwest 
quarter section 29, Washington township is a solitary butte, known 
as Soldier Cap mound, rising 150 feet above the general elevation 
of the eastern part of the divide. This sentinel gives a clear idea of 
the erosion that has occurred over the central part of Saline county. 
The mound is capped by coarse-grained brownish sandstone that 
1 First Biennial Report State Board Agriculture of Kansas, 1878, p. 67. 
2 Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Territories, vol. IX, 1876, pp. 171, 174, etc. 
