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Show 74. Ex. Doc. No. 41. our vi~ilcrs. Happy, cheerful, an<l cont nt d, he was consu1Letl in t•vcry trad , and sc ~ m e d a~1 idol_ ~vith the Apach s. It rc<luired ]iltl, pendration to trac • hts ot:tgtn from lh' sat_ne hnd a. tl~c gau~ of the old w~man. We tncd to purcha.' hun, but he Ri~ td it \vas long, long, tn cc h' was ·apturetl_, and that h ' had no .d cstre to 1 cay c h i · mast r who , h c was c r ltu n , w o ul d n o t s 11 hun for any money. All attempts were Yain, and the hul seem d gralifl(~ d b o t h a t l h e off e r to p u r e has I' , an d t h ' r c f u a l t o . · 11. II e r c w c found the mountains chiefly of r •d ferruginous sandston , altered by h('at. Novcm.be1· 4.- ix miles from onr camp of last n!ght we rea ched a summit, and th n commencc<l dcs<'cn ding again rapidly tovnuds th' Gila, along a d<·eply cniioned valley, th :an cls ofwhi ·h were bla('k with particles of oxi de ancl pcroxidt• of iron. N<•ar the summit, th ·hills on each id w re of old red .a nd~tone, with strata. sloping to th southwest at an agle of 25°, and und •r this were strata of bla ·k ~lat and compact lim stone, and th n granite. In the ravin es we found, at placrs, a luxuriant growth of sycamore, a h, cedar, pine, nut-wood, mrzcal, and som walnut, the edible nul again, Adam's needl e, small vcrgrccn oak nnd cottonwood, and a gourd the cucumis p 'rcnnis. 'There was every indi ·ation of water, but none was pro uretl on 1he . nrface ; it could, no doubt, have been found by digging, but th Uila was only twenty miles distant. The la t six or eight mile of our route was down th ~lry bed of a ~lream, in_ a course ca t of south, and our day's journey did not g<un much tn the direction of California. It was nee 'Ssary to a - ~en_cl the riYer a mile in sc:uch of grass, and then w ' got but an Inddfcrenl supply. Except in the two camps nrarcsl to Mount Turnbull, and the one at the San Carlos we have never before, since leaving Santa Fe, hatl occasion to c~mplain of the wanl of grass. We enca_mped in a grove of cacti of. all kin(ls; amongst them the huge pttahaya, one of which was ftfty f el high. G ologtcal formation on this slope of the Piiion Lano Mountains: !st. Conglomerate_ of sand tone and pebbles; then, re<l sand tone l1l lay rs a foot tlnck; then, granite very oarsc. The clcplh of the ~wo first wa many hundred feet, and in some places it slratifi ~at10n much deranged. Many large masses of sandstone, with ilun scam.· of vitrifi~d quartz. ln the dry creek down which we travelle<l we saw a cav of gr . en andst~ne, in whi~h a fire bad been built; for what purpose 1 cannot conJecture, as 1t was too small to admit a mfln. ~he Apaches ga~c us to understand that a marancling party of the1r pcopl~ were m onora. The broau fresh trail of cattle and hor ·cs 1 'admJ up the arroyo, inlluccs the belief that they have returned- successful, of course. Last night was mild, the thPrmometer at 63° Fahrenh it; and,. what was very ~wusual here, the heavens were oyercast, which prevented my getting the rat of the chronometers. Although we have had no rain xcept at 1\1ounl Graham, where 75 he l 'l' taby d, ryras of ta, Cl'; lO ll th. ·r- )11- )ffi .' rs n t · of' a Hl d. xe, ry a- ·y 'C g y r f |
