2 BULLETIN 87, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ITINERARY. 



The second Museum-Gates expedition party, consisting of P. G. 

 Gates, Dr. Walter Hough, and Clancey M. Lewis, with Edward 

 Gannett as teamster and guide, assembled at Clifton, Arizona, on 

 June 8, 1905, and after outfitting, began the journey north, following 

 San Francisco Eiver. Small ruins were noted between Clifton and 

 Carpenter, at the mouth of Blue River, and at the latter place the 

 examination of several sites required a sta}^ of three days. The 

 heavy rains of the previous winter had obliterated the road along 

 the San Francisco River, and for this reason it was decided to fol- 

 low Blue River to its head, whence it would be easy to cross into 

 the valley of the San Franciso. At J. H. Cosper's farm a stay of 

 a week was made, and ruins in the vicinity, especially the great 

 Bacred cavern on Bear Creek, were thoroughly examined. This 

 locality is the southern limit of the reconnoissance made by the 

 writer in 1903. Two weeks were employed in the excavation of im- 

 portant ruins at Blue Post Office, on the land of Mr. Charles Martin. 

 At this point Mr. Gates left the party, returning to Los Angeles, 

 and shortly after his departure the camp was swept away by one 

 of the cloud-bursts peculiar to this region, the members of the 

 party narrowly escaping injury. On August 8, Luna, on the upper 

 San Francisco River, in western Socorro County, New Mexico, was 

 reached. Here the party stayed eight days, moving thence by the 

 way of East Camp to the N. H. Ranch in the beautiful valley of 

 Apache Creek. Large ruins in this neighborhood occupied the 

 party for a week, when a move was made by way of Gallo Spring 

 to Delgar's Ranch, near Joseph Post Office, in the Tularosa River 

 Valley, where a stay of four days was made. Near the former site 

 of Old Fort Tularosa, now Plaza Aragon, 12 days were spent 

 in working in an interesting cave. From this place the party pro- 

 ceeded by forced marches northward across the Datil Mountains 

 down Mangas Canyon to the Rito Quemado and the sacred Salt Lake 

 of the Zuiii, arriving at Zufii Pueblo on September 18. After a 

 stay of three days here, the party reached the Santa Fe railroad at 

 Gallup, New Mexico, on the 22d. having been in the field three and 

 a half months. 



TULAROSA CAVE. 



The Tularosa is a small tributary of San Francisco River, flowing 

 southwest from its source in the Datil Mountains and emptying a 

 few miles above Reserve Post Office, Socorro County, New Mexico. 

 In its middle course it flows through a beautiful plain surrounded by 

 mountains, and in its lower course traverses a deep canyon. Beyond 

 the upper end of the valley, above the clear, rushing mountain 

 stream, is a bold cliff of yellow tuff in which is a cave of moderate 



