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Rocky Mountain Trip 
Bed. Jacket, to help m to the successful surrey of the Sierra 
Ab&jos, but since Harry :ie with us the Indian is uncalled for. 
These Utes are apparently very docile and are now engaged at 
their f arras or trading with the Hava joe* Red Jacket is raising 
a little corn on Jim f e ranch on the Hio Mane os, 
Sept» llth : Imrdhed to Maneos+ dot SO lbs. potatoes from 
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IT v• 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 far ill ice hare coma A drove of 1130 
cattle have Just been driven in by Colonel Sheets. The pasture 
is excellent and. high up on the west banco s is as luxuriant as 2 
have ever seen. Csmpod in a beautiful park near the source of 
the fftgftt within about c in miles of the Hardee peak; !To.l 
outcrops in the canon and perhaps a little of the Jurassic. The 
shales cover most of the surface and extend high up on the west 
faces of the mountains. Ho.l may show in the head mi lobes of the 
Bast Mane os* but the shales predominate, 
Sept. 12th : Climbed teflata peak (which 1 hope to call 
Barra yairmip pk) from the west and had one of the most- delight¬ 
fully clear days that 2 have ever seen.. Every object that was 
within the possibility of vision could be seen. The buttes and 
tables about Sierra Aaarilla, the mountains beyond the Hio Grande, 
and the asonumental valley 0 f Arizona ana the Bough mountains in 
the far west. hade a sketch of the La Plata group and a few of 
small bits in the quarts it ic and elsewhere. Lone Cone and the 
San Miguels appear in the north and the San Juan mountains make 
a orilliant snow to the northeast» The Animas cation seems to he 
