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We had hopes of securing a Dinohyus skeleton but after two weeks of very hard labor we gave up. However we did find more signs of Dinohyus in this cut than at any time before. On September 1st Carl Sorensen and I were left alone, the boys we had employed began work on a Diceratherium slab for their colleges. Sorensen and I then set to prospecting the Upper Harrison beds. After our first weeks work of hard searching we secured only one specimen worth taking. This was a very small Deer (Blastomeryx) apparently fore and hind limbs are present. Fragments of skull with lower jaws + pelvis, part of a small turtle is also in this block. After another two weeks of prospecting we found but very little material worth taking. Even Merychyus and Promerycochoerus are not as common as expected. We secured one skull and jaws of Merychyus that are very good. A badly messed up Parahippus ? Oxydactylus fore and hind limb bones. Jaws and pelvis and possibly some limb bones of a second Blastomeryx. Frag'y skull and jaws of a Camel. also Dinohyus teeth. ???Probascidian. Miller discovered a very fair Dinohyus skull in the Lower Harrison Beds about 3 mi East of Agate. This was found at apparently a lower level than the old Agate Spring Quarry. From the quarry we secured a complete set of Diceratherium cervicals (that was from the old cut) Two Moropus femora was all we saved from the new cut.