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[[underlined]] cut 18 [[/underlined]] 2 mi S. of Hawarden along wagon road is a deep (12 ft) loess cut (both sides road). It is yellow, few nodules (small) above, laminated below, and all loess. Seem to get somewhat fine - sandy in lowest parts in places. [[end page]] [[start page]] 35 [[underlined]] Sep. 8 [[/underlined]] - [[underlined]] (Thursday) 1910 [[/underlined]] Left Hawarden at 7:40 AM for Akron. Took train out of Akron & drove N. [[underlined]] cut 5 [[/underlined]] Just N. of cemetery, low down, there is a cut on E. side road which is all fine sand except soil (sandy) above.) [[underlined]] cut 6 [[/underlined]] - This is Strobehn Bros. pit. It is up a slope, at end of [[insertion]] ^ a loess [[/insertion]] ridge. The material is exposed about 10 ft. They have gone about 3 ft. farther & found nothing but sand & gravel. The upper 6 ft is mixed, coarse, ferruginous stuff with some boulder, some rotten. There are streaks & bands of white sand below. - feet lower springs come out, & all along the bluff here for some distance springs come out at same level. This line of springs & seapy places runs N. about 40 rods & south about 1/2 a mile. Reading top of bank (on end of ridge) 1200 " [[Ditto for: Reading]] at base of bank 1188 " " [[Dittos for: Reading at]] level of springs - 1172 " " [[Dittos for: Reading at]] bottom ([[strikethrough]] almost [[/strikethrough]] below level of RR 1125 [[written over 1140]] RR about 5 ft higher
Transcription Notes:
Hawarden is city in Sioux County, Iowa
Akron is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa
ferruginous-a geologic term meaning iron bearing