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branch of the San Iliguel on which was camp and rode eastward from 
Lone Gone across several small branches and through some of the 
most beautiful country I have ever seen. The aspens are in their 
autumn colors and the bushes and grass are especially rich. The 
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streams entered little canon to my left and I could see outcrop¬ 
pings of Ho. 1. I passed over only shales. Kept on a dim hunt¬ 
ing trail that led between the western group of Miguel mountains 
and a little vol. capped, but that stands to the north; and fol¬ 
lowed up the branch of the Hio San Miguel that heads between the 
two groups of Iliguel and opposite the head of Dolores, From the 
timber line saddle I had a most satisfactory view of the surround¬ 
ing country. Above timber line the mountains are nearly solid 
trachyte. At timber line or for a thousand feet below the trach¬ 
yte is interbedded with cretaceous shales and forms occasional 
bluffs and abrupt spurs. On a map in my large sketch book will 
suggest most of the outlines. Ho. 1 seems to cross the Dolores 
a few miles down and can be traced along a large hog back which 
extends downward toward the forks. The little group of lp.ilIs 
between the two forks of Dolores (the Dolores proper and Bear Rio), 
on which Chilly and I made a station last year, has exposures of 
carb., trias and Jurassic rocks, but do not extend far to the west 
and north as the cretaceous beds sweep around from the south to 
the west and north faces. The end of the large trachytic ridge 
toward the forks of the Rio appears past the slope of west San 
Iliguel. The Sierra San Miguel proper rise very abruptly to the 
east of the saddle and are certainly one of the finest groups in 
Colorado. The Hio San Iliguel comes out to the east of this group 
and can be seen in canon;to the north the red beds appear and the 
