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Show 219 someone was living at Ojo Benado. The 1875 survey notes of C. Burton Foster are interesting in their description of the country around Kolhu/wala:wa (T. 14 N., R. 26 E.):220 This Township contains a large amount of good farming land and an abundance of good grazing land. The Little Colorado River flows through the T. from Sec. 25 to Sec 18. The land bordering on the river is mostly meadow land <5c somewhat marshy in places along its banks but is covered with a rich growth of fine grasses. Concho Creek waters the Tp. in Sec. 34 and flows into the Little Colorado river in Sec. 23. There is also a creek (the Zuni River) in the northern part of the Tp., which becomes dry during the dryer part of the season. There are several settlers in the Tp. 219. Hodge, F. W. "Old Dan Dubois," Los Angeles Westerners' "Brand Book," Los Angeles Corral of Westerners, Los Angeles, 1950. Barnes, Will C. Will C. Barnes' Arizona Place Names, (Revised and enlarged by Byrd H. Granger), University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1979, p. 233. Wheeler, op. cit. Klett, Francis "The Zuni Indians of New Mexico," Popular Science Monthly, V. May-Oct., 1874, pp. 580-587, who reported the Zunis also complained of a Mexican homestead on the Little Colorado, possibly the same one they later complained had established himself near Kolhu/wala:wa. MK, .F o s t e r ' C- B- Township No. 14 N., R. 26. E., March-July, 1875, shows a Mexican Settlement" near the second night camping spot on the pilgrimage. Wheeler, O. D. Township 15 N., R. 26 E., July-September, 1882, shows the house of Pobecarpo Jaramillo apparently just to the northeast of Koyemshi Mountain. J 220. Foster, C. Burton, "Field Notes: Township 14 N., Range 26 E." July 7-Julv 17 1875, Book 170, General Description." Y ' - 144 - |
