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Show THE R. B REPORT RESEARCH REPORT DELANEY AND ROBERT MCDANIEL W. August 6 in the afternoon we set out from Senora de las Nieves, down Nuestra de Paraje stream and to the west, and after travel ing two and a half leagues of bad terrain we halted by On the 6th EI the river's edge. Don Bernardo Miera stomach trouble al I having he got along had been and this afternoon much worse, but God wil led that he got better before morning the next day so that we could continue on our way. Today two leagues and a half. RESEARCH AND R. INTERPRETATION Carracas, Colorado, is a deserted and Delaney W. station on Robert McDaniel the abandoned Denver the San Juan River near & Rio Grande Western Railroad line, its junction with between road an unnumbered Archuleta County gravel The Junction. and 151 surrounding country is Colorado located on Pagosa typical Upper Highway Sonoran vegetation including cottonwoods and wi I lows with oak brush and sage, pinion, juniper, and large Ponderosa pines on the slopes with a watercourses the along The San Juan River is usually very high and muddy northern exposure. lower in August, summer but was undoubtedly much and in hi I Iy terrain forested with early spring river at Carracas would be easy to cross in August of any The campsite of Nuestra Senora de las Nieves was probably year. located on the north bank of the San Juan in the vicinity of a bridge This bridge is about onewhich is sti I I standing but little used. 1776. The gravel r09d that goes to Pagosa Junction and on to As Bolton points out, Escalante is wrong on the dis Bolton tance to the confluence of the Navajo and San Juan rivers. snow indicates that the campsite was so named because of the vista of One cannot see the snow-covered peaks from the campsite, covered peaks. but they would have seen them from the high ground before descending Escalante is absolutely right about the land to the San Juan River. The val ley broadens out and is ideal for downstream from the campsite. eighth mi Ie' off Pagosa Springs. irrigated (In the crops. al I of this, it must be remembered the expedition had a directions would be only that At best, the compass very primitive compass. Of course, is about 14°. north and magnetic true north -42- the earth's |
