north face of the Mesa this upper escarpment stands back,(See 
sketch from JJite peak). Three miles down the Me Elmo No. 1 , 
is exposed in the creek bed just below the cottonwoods 26 miles 
from Maneos Ranch the varie gutaS shales are first seen. No. 1 
does not seen to be more than 200 feet thick; it is of soft 
yellowish sandstone. At camp the canon of the McElmo is about 
400 feet deep. The sanstones beneath the Variegated beds begin 
to show. Gamp at Nar-a-guin-nep spring. 
July 29th.- 
v Jackson and Aldrich did not come. The mail is probably late. 
&CUJL 
Chitty and Brandy go across the Canon to make a station. I rode 
out on a skirmish; passed up to the immediate base of 2>6te Peak 
and thence back toward the M^sa Vercbi. Carrie upon a group of 
ruins within a rnile of camp, at the head of a shallow side canon 
of McElmc. The main ruin is of a great treble walled tower that 
stands amidst a cluster of irregular apartments**Some 60 or 80, 
and is certainly of great interest (See drawing plan and measure¬ 
ments in large drawing book). There is, also, on the brink of 
the cliff the base of a small tower and on a lower level, one 
wall of a two-story house. At the base of the bluff and on the 
neighboring points are groups of shapeless piles of ruins; de¬ 
pressions surrounded by raised walls from 2 to 5 feet high. No 
evidence of hewn stone or well built walls. In returning to 
Camp from this place I met Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Barber, who had 
