CHAPTER VI.
Fossils, and One Way of Utilising Them--Temosachic--The First Tarahumares--Ploughs with Wooden Shares--Visit to the Southern Pimas--Aboriginal Hat Factories--Pinos Altos--The Waterfall near Jesus Maria--An Adventure with Ladrones.
About thirty miles from the village of Temosachic (in the Tarahumare tongue Remosachic means Stone Heap) we entered the plain of Yepomera, and came upon an entirely different formation, limestone appearing in an almost horizontal layer some thirty feet deep.

In this bed the Mexicans frequently find fossils, and at one place four large fossil bones have been utilised as the corner posts of a corral or inclosure.

We were told that teeth and bones were accidentally found at a depth of from twenty to thirty feet and some bones were crystallised inside.

This formation, which stretches itself out toward the east of Temosachic, but lies mainly to the north of this place, has an extent of about fifteen miles from north to south, and from three to four miles from east to west.
Fossils picked up by Mr.Meeds in the cutting of a creek near Yepomera consisted of some fragmentary teeth and pieces of bones from some small animal.

They were found in the hard clay that underlies the lime-stone.