Rocky Mountain Trip 
appear in the Laplata canon and on the east face and eastern can¬ 
ons of the Sierras. There is more trachyte than I had suspected. 
Descended to the valley about two miles below/ tom - Parrot - and 
soon reached the trail which passes up the bar (wagon road). A 
couple of cow boys were riding up the road and I was somewhat sur¬ 
prised to meet a light wagon containing women and children and 
quite durife'ounded a large Indian outfit that I had descried afar 
off dressed in bright colors and covered with trailing gew gaws, 
turned out to be a party of ladles and gentlemen out on a Sunday 
evening ride down the valley. I had not heard of this feminine 
invasion and I was no less pleased than surprised. Pound nearly 
all of the old boys, among whom are certainly a larger proportion 
of good solid men than can be found in one such mining village 
out of a dozen. Pound our camp in the old place just above town. 
In the little gulch a dam has been built for the purpose of secur¬ 
ing hydraulic pov/er for the placer mines. Giles, Putnam, Lewis, 
Bennett and others are In town. A county has been organized 
called Laplata and these gentlemen are the officers. Map.y good 
leads have been struck since last r, but the Comstock seems 
to be the most promising lead. They are down one hundred feet 
and the* ore bearing edges is 12 feet wide. Distributed photo¬ 
graphs and books. Harry Lee came in in the evening and appeared 
in camp with a blanket folded about him. I appealed that he had 
reached Ouray four days after Gannett and Stevenson had left and 
had immediately set out for Parrott in order to join us, but being 
liable to arrest for having given whiskey to Indians and consequent¬ 
ly had to keep in the shade at Parrott. He agreed to join us tom- 
Dick Giles had agreed to get us an Indian, a brother of 
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