Rocky Mountain Trip 
reach the top. The country slope a off toward the Hncompaglere 
river* most of the surface to right being shales whiih to 
the left Ho. 1 prevails* A few buttes have shales. The great 
rai^e of the Ban Miguel as mil as the Snaffles group is trach- 
ytic with a base of cret. shales* From the east side of San 
Miguel Canon 1 had one of the grandest and most enchanting land¬ 
scapes possible. The subject is worthy of the brush of Church 
or Moran (see large sketch book)* Camped on a small branch of 
the San Miguel near the Tlxcompaglere divide. 
Sept * 24th : XJhcompaglere * Crossed over to South or Dal¬ 
las fork of bncompaglere / To our left is a long straight bluff 
capped with Ho.l;variegated marls come beneath. There has been 
a fault along the line of the creek, as on the east side the 
shales extend down to the creek bed. The dip is to the west and 
the fault has been pretty uniform - say ten miles long and having 
a displacement not above 600 feet. The trail to the agency passes 
over the cret. bluff (Ho»X) to the left, some five miles above 
the junction of South Fork with the main Bio * The dip is gentle 
to tlx© agency whore the shale occupy the valley. Having stopped 
to make a sketch of the Snaffles group* Wilson, AikihsM, Redden 
and Lee went on to the agency and 1 fell in with the pack train. 
We followed the creek to the mouth and took the wagon road to 
the agency. The Bio bluffs are capped with Ho.l* but the road 
passes to the north and is in shale for five miles. An inter- 
estiixg dyke occurs above the agency. Saw small coal seams in 
No.ii g>t a specimen f romhr* Bond. He says the seam is four or 
five feet thick but not solid or regular. Got also a specimen 
