CAAt shale of Nos. 2 and 3 have been caught up in the trachyte 
and may be seen in places nearly all over the group of ruts “V 
The beds in general have not been raised much, excepting to 
be bent up at the edges as seen at the South end. The canon 
of the McElmo cuts through the slight antechinal under the 
North face of the peak exposing about 1000 feet of strata 
beneath No. 1, 300 of which are red. 
July 31 - 
This morning we said good-bye to Narragurnnep and Howdydo, 
who* Wo.th their family boarded with us for three days, and started 
down the heElmo expecting to have to march to the San Juan 30 
or 35 miles away. These Indians have been quite useful to us 
but they eat like fury, passed by their corn fields; Some 
damp patches in which they have planted a little corn; less 
than an acre in all. It growns in clusters, a hundred stalks 
in a hill; will soon be in silk if the dry weather does not cut 
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it off. Jackson and Harry rode on ahead to look for water; 
found some at the Ruined Castle or Hoven Weep, by noon; thither 
we followed. At the North base of Hite Peak beginning in the 
creek-bed we get the following section: About 200 feet of bedded 
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sandstone, reddish purple irregularly bedded, thick and thin 
lamination, much impurity, clay pockets, speckled and rotten 
patches, versicolored etc., 150 feet pale, grayish-red massive 
sandstone, corresponding perhaps to the yellow sandstone of the 
front border country. 300 or 400 feet of yellowish and purplish 
