June 6. Men hard at work from an early hour & finished bridge by 10 A.M. Bridge built on 5 timber cribs fastened with treenails. Long & strong logs laid from crib to crib, one on each side. Small logs roughly fitted laid across for roadway. Then all covered with facines straw & earth. Crossing began about 2.30 & before 2 P.M. all over except East & scouts who wait to hunt up four lost, (or stolen?) horses.

Filed up mound opened day before yesterday, in passing that indians prejudices might not be offended. Travelled on & camped on N. Antler Creek about ten miles from the Souris.

Took census of constituents of surface drift on E. bank of Souris this morning. Collecting pebbles over a considerable area.

Limestone of usual type 186

Granite & gneiss 56

Probably Mica schist 2

Laur. - Black hornblende rock 2

Quartz 8

Gneiss with garnets 1

Quartzite & jasper like rock 7

Diorite (Cryst) 1 - Coarse light coloured Quartzite sandstone 2

Probably Dark greenish evidently fragmental rock 8

Hur.- Hard green & greenish-black rocks with much hornblende & some schist 22

Cret. ? Frao_-ments of ferriginous concretions 3

Camp 8A.M. Bar 28.29

Ther 60

noon it 28.18 It 72

Camp, Bank N. Antler, 10 m. from Souris

Bar. 28.11

Ther 52

from camp E. bank Souris. Odometer 4445.

June 7. Started early & travelled across to S. Antler Cr. Crossed it, the ford being easy though signs on the bushes of flood water say ten feet above present level; & went on about a mile. Lunched by S. Antler & then went on to the "Big Slew" or valley about 8 miles W. of it. Camped.

Camp 8.45 A.M. Bar. 28-08

Ther. 52.