Rocky fountain Trip 
out around the Raton hills 1 to the east and touching the range, 
apparently, far to the south. The streams, and especially the 
BungatOire, have cut deep gashes in this table land, exposing 
the cretaceous shale for a little distance up the valleys. The 
higher part of the ”Hills, u i.e. Fisher Peak and the table land 
to the east have been capped and preserved by a. heavy bed of 
basalt. In descending we gathered fine raspberries and choke 
cherries. Harry Yount had been out hunting all day but returned 
during a heavy rain storm without game. As we sat in an old 
house, by which we had camped, Harry looked out one of the win¬ 
dows and suddenly said, "Mr. Holmes, get your glasses and lets 
look for deer over against those hills. n At the same time he 
looked across the valley which intervened and saw four deer, 
two does and two fawns, playing about on the slope some } of 
a mile away. In an instant he was off with his gun and with 
our glasses we watched him approach the game through the bushes 
and trees. Presently they ran and stopped and returned to look. 
then ran again and a shot from Harry’s rifle sent them frying, 
out one only leaped wildly for a while and plunged into the 
bushes dead. The others were allowed to escape. 
Aug. 20th : Sunday. At Trinidad. A twenty-five’mile 
march, first down the hills through Trinidad and then up the fur 
gatory river toward the mountains completed this day’s work. 
Trinidad was alive. The country people came in to do their 
purchasing, etc., on Sunday. The stores and saloons are all 
open. Up the river the settlements are all Mexican and the 
people and their surroundings are most unique and interesting. 
One feels almost as if suddenly transported to some foreign 
