XC11 REPORTS OF GEOLOGISTS. 



But the water of the Eagle Springs was so scarce that we again had to fall 

 back for part of the needed water on a scanty supply of the railway tank in 

 Torbert. So after Dr. Woodward and Mr. Davis had finished the computa- 

 tion for the determination of the meridian, and we had set the monuments 

 (one near the intersection of the old stage road to El Paso with the Southern 

 Pacific Railway on the north side of the railway, and one about one mile 

 south of the first one), in the presence of Mr. Davis, Major Marmion, county 

 surveyor of Presidio County, representing also Jeff Davis County, and my- 

 self, I removed the camp to a well in the flat on Glenn's Creek, where we 

 found a sufficient supply of good water. But the scarcity of grass, as well as 

 clouds of small gnats which nearly killed the animals, compelled me again to 

 move the camp, wjiich besides was a long distance from the points where ob- 

 servations were to be made. 



Up to this time (July) it was impossible to secure the help of a topog- 

 rapher at the salary of last year. I left Mr. Taff with one team at Sierra 

 Blanca Junction to work up the Cretaceous hills in the surroundings, and 

 moved myself to the Bonanza district between the first (north) and the second 

 (main) range of the Quitman Mountains. Here the party was joined by Mr. 

 Ralph Wyschetzki, who had successfully worked with me as topographer 

 during the last field campaign. After having worked up the Bonanza dis- 

 trict, I moved the camp to the west side of the main range of the Quitman 

 Mountains (formerly Sierra de los Dolores), where since the last rains 1 had 

 found water in a drift of the Queen Ann prospect. From this camp Mr. Taff, 

 who being through the work around Sierra Blanca and on the hills between 

 this place and the Quitman Mountains, had joined the party, began to section- 

 ize the strata of the Cretaceous hills on the west side, and the older limestones 

 extending from the Quitman Mountains into the flat and into the Cretaceous 

 Malone hills. I myself, with Mr. Wyschetzki, started the topographical work 

 from the points from which we had left off work at the close of the last field 

 campaign. Later Mr. Wyschetzki carried on the work assisted by one of the 

 drivers until I secured the help of Mr. Leon Perl as assistant topographer. 



I removed the camp about four miles down the mountains to the location 

 of the Mule prospect, the last place on the mountain slope accessible by wag- 

 ons, and we finished the geological and topographical work down to the Quit- 

 man Pass (formerly Puerta de las Lamentaciones). Rains and waterspouts 

 had destroyed the old stage road and all other roads to and through part of 

 the pass, and in order to take the east side of the Quitman Mountains and the 

 pass I had to move round by Sierra Blanca, going to camp first at the foot of 

 the Cretaceous ranges west of the Devil's Ridge, about nine miles southeast of 

 Sierra Blanca, and later to near the east side of the Quitman Pass, where I 

 left Mr. Wyschetzki in charge of the camp, and moved with Mr. Taff to an 



