Rocky Mountain Trip 
Red Jacket, to help us to the successful survey of the Sierra 
Abajos, but since Earry is with \is the Indian is uncalled for. 
These Utes are apparently very docile and are now engaged s.t 
t&eir farms or trading with the xlava jos. Red Jacket is raising 
a little corn on Jim f s ranch on the Rio Man cos-* 
Sept. 11th : Marched to Mancos. Got 30 lbs. potatoes from 
Mr..Merritt. The crops are very nice. Turnips, potatoes, corn, 
wheat, oats, beans, cabbage, rye, peas, barley, fine cucumbers, 
watermelons, squashes, beets, etc. are doing well. Four or five 
farmers are at work, but no families have come.. A drove of 1150 
cattle have just been driven in by Colonel Sheets. The pasture 
is excellent and high up on the west Mancos is as luxuriant as I 
have ever seen. Camped in a beautiful park near the source of 
the West Mancos, within about six miles of the Banded peak;Wo. 1 
outcrops in the canon and perhaps a little of the Jurassie. The 
shales cover most of the surface and extend high up on the west 
faces of the mountains. ITo.l may show in the head gulches of the 
East Mancos, but the shales predominate. 
Sept. 12th ; Climbed LaPlata peak (which I hope to call 
Harr a guinnip pk) from the west and had one of the most delight¬ 
fully clear days that I have ever seen. Every object that was 
within the possibility of vision could be seen. The buttes and 
tables about Sierra Amarilla, the mountains beyond the Rio Grande, 
and the monumental valley of Arizona and the Rough mountains in 
the far west. Made a sketch of the La plata group and a few of 
small bits in the quartzitic and elsewhere. Lone Cone and the 
San Miguels appear in the north and the San Juan mountains make 
a brilliant show oo the norwheast. The Animas canon seems to be 
