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Expedition 1923 Snake and Sheep Creek Beds in Western side of Kilpatrick Bros. pasture. Sioux County Nebraska. Carl Sorensen June to Oct. Glenn L. Jepsen June 17th Ray Lemley July 1st to 17. Aug 7 to Sept 7 Party{ Mrs. Sorenson June to Oct. Mrs. Thomson Paul C. Miller Aug 1st to Sept 1st Albert Thomson in charge. June 15th we began work in the Snake and Sheep Creek quarries where we left off in 1923. We worked these quarries until August 4th with about the usual result. Material scrappy, though we succeeded in securing some new materials. ? One skull and jaws in position of Pilanchenia from the upper Snake Creek beds and a very good Dog skull from the Sheep Creek beds were about our best finds. August 9th we worked a new Stenomylus quarry which we discovered about 125 yards to the north of the old Amherst Hill Quarry. We secured three skeletons with skulls and three incomplete skeletons, alphabetically arranged A,B,C,D,E +F. This quarry we called the Amer. Mus. Quarry. If team and scraper was used for a week on this new Stenomylus quarry I am quite certain more skeletons can be had We ran over to the Snake and Sheep Crk beds from time to time during August while Paul Miller was with us. While doing this Miller and myself discovered in the very uppermost Sheep Creek beds a very small pocket containing two Merychippus skulls of the larger type and several jaws and a fair skull of Oreodont. Also some Deer fragments. Also part skeleton of Alticaruelus. Lower Snake Crk. August 15th we opened the Agate Spring Quarry to the south east of the old cut where the stripping was not as heavy as at the old cut.