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Show eastern three runoffs of for the horse herd. are mesa good water, but there From the stopping point was not enough After going two more terrain. over to here we traveled good for about three east-southeast we swung leagues southeast, troublesome and over country. And even though leagues we turage dark. sandy water for the horse herd, we stopped on finding pas because it was very tired by now, and it was already Here there is exten San Bartolome. We named the found no place is sive val ley land but of bad terrain, for what is not sand after inches of rubble, and a kind of ground having about three There are many deposits of that loose soi I of different hues. transparent gypsum, some of mica, and there also seem to be some of metallic ore. Today leagues. nine Rio Colorado, from north-north east to south-southwest, very deep inside a canyon, so that even if the land were good, the river is of no help for farming This afternoon we saw the embankments and cliffs of the near it. this Through rier's the give it to be RESEARCH AND area runs EI which, when viewed along the western side, impression of a lengthy row of structures, but we figured box canyon some box canyon of the many arroyos found C. INT_ERPRETATION on the plain. Gregory Crampton On this day Dominguez and Escalante made good time through open country The i r rou te is easy to and trave I ed about 25 mil es over "good terra i n" follow. They went up Coyote Wash to its head eight mi les from San Juan Capistrano and crossed over the imperceptible divide to the head of House At eleven mi les from their camp the padres turned to the Rock Val ley. southeast and at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs on their left they found . some pools of water. Quite likely the pools had been fi I led by water flowing Spring (shown as One Mi Ie Spring on the USGS House Rock Spring Quadrangle), an important watering pl ace on the old Utah-Arizona opened by the Mormons In the 1890s. from House Rock road Continuing down the widening House Rock Val ley the Spaniards fol lowed House Rock Wash, staying close to the base of the Vermi I ion CI iffs and Leaving leaving the plunging slopes of the Kaibab Plateau behind them. the wash they stayed north of U. S. Highway 89A and crossed miles of red sand. Their track was about a mile and a half south of Jacob's Pools, a watering place on the old Utah-Arizona road. The padres camped for the night on Emmett Hi I I, the divide between House Rock Wash and Emmett Wash at a point just to the east of the southernmost point of the Paria Plateau which towered than 2,000 feet above them. The campsite Escalante mentioned soi I of different colors. be definitely located. This suggests the many-hued A patch f the Chinle about a quarter of a mile in diameter Chinle FormatIon. surface precisely where the padres made camp. on the is to be seen The formation is exposed nowhere else along their trai I in this general area. The campsite may be seen from the highway. One can stop at mi Ie 555.3 (mileposts look to the north a quarter of a mi Ie are found along Arizona highways) and where the Chinle formation appears. more -158- can |
