Douglas  Stewart, Director

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa

My dear Stewart:



I promised that I would write you more fully as to the prospects for collecting and doing gelogical work here.  Messrs.  Peterson and Coggeshall, whom you sent here last summer, went over part of the ground with me and they will be able to testify as to the correctness of part of the following.



The thickness of the series of sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of Uinta Mountains -- north, east and west -- has not be accurately measured but it is probably 50,000 feet or mor ein the aggregate, though probably no one section would show this thickness.  On account of the high mountain-uplift, the conditions for rapid erosion, and aridity of the climate of the lowlans with its lack of luxurious vegetation, the strats of the various formation are extensively denuded and laid bare for inspection.