Box 1, Folder 10: Notebooks

[Left Page] [pencil sketch with handwritten text] Sandstone Conglomerate

P. Sandstone Quarry Marquette South quarry

Showing sandstone of different (later) ages or formations -

All within the Potsdam period

Sandstone sent to Milwaukee & Chicago and sold for $1.00 pr cubic foot.

[Right Page] [pencil sketch with handwritten text] Chloritic slates

Limestone (siliceous*) resting upon shales 3 1/2 miles below Marquette L. Superior.

Has the nature of Travertine, or a Stalagmite Mass, similar to that in the Potsdam Sandstone in Sauk & Richland Counties Wisconsin *So much silex as to be useless as a flux -

[Left Page] [pencil sketch with handwritten text] A Shale Limestone B

The limestone occupies a depression or valley in the ridge of shales

The curves or layers resemble those of a typographical (contour) map.

[Right Page] [pencil sketch with handwritten text] Drift Sand Boulders / Quartrite Potsdam Sandstone Red

3 miles below Marquette on L. Superior

[pencil sketch with handwritten text] Limestone Slate

See A. B.

[Left Page] At 3.25 pm return to Negaunee

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Judge P.J. Avery Prest. Portage Lake [Canal Co. crossed out] & L. Sup. Canal Co. 229 [illegible text circled and crossed out] Broad 7

Box 4687 P. O Box

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One is transported 40 m. to Marquette & put on board at same or less price than from Negaunee 13 miles Dif. in Mining the ore

Edio Breitung

[Right Page] [pencil sketch] Huts of the Hotentots Negaunee For making charcoal

[line drawn] At 7.20 train left Negaunee for Escanaba Where we arrived at 10pm

Saturday June 29th Left Escanabe at - 5 am arrived at // At Menomonee at 9 am

[Left Page] [check mark] Bacon or Pork Ham [crossed out] Crackers [check mark] tea [check mark] sugar [check mark] Pork [crossed out] [check mark] Blankets Order for tent Boots (Packs) [check mark] Baking Powder [check mark] 1 1/2 lbs flour pr day pr man [check mark] flour [check mark]Coffee fish hooks

[line drawn] T39 R 18E. Wis Sec 28.29.21 Magnetic [crossed out] NW 1/4 28 Magnetic

[Right Page] S.G. Smith - has entered lands for iron T 39 n 18 E

[line drawn] Pine ^Copper at Sturgeon Falls running under th eriver Vein -

Also at Little Quinnesec 1/2 mile below lower falls on Sandy portage on the Wis: side.

Lead at Twin falls Wis side a little above Pine river.

[line drawn] Big Q[?] further up.

[Left Page] Left Menomonee at 4 1/2 pm in a team with N.P. Husk & W.D VanDyke for the rim region on the upper Menom. river.

Rode 24 miles to Johnson's near Cedar Cr. mostly in a heavy rain

Mosquitos excessively numerous - Our nets in great demand.

Road runs over drift ridges - containing much limestone - saw no rock in place.

[Right Page] The fire Oct 9th 1871 extented up this road 15 miles.

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June 30th 1872 Rode up the Menomonee river - Found fruit trap rock a Permence falls.

At the Farm for dinner. Thence to John Davis' on Hay river near the mouth - thence by Barker's (on Sec 31 & Sec 5) to Breen Mine on Sec 22-2(T)q-2(R)8