At 8 a.m. most of the whites from camp went down the canyon to the Rio Grande. Some turned back at the first fall. I did not go clear to the river but stopped just below the lower fall. Very little water is running at the falls, and in many places the creek bed is quite dry, the water flowing through the sand. Section below lower fall, W side, where canyon runs South:
((Drawing in field book))
This is not drawn accurately nor to scale. At the two falls the canyon is very narrow and is cut mostly through the basalt and some sandstones. The tufa above recedes considerably from the narrow canyon, thus
((drawing in field book))
The sandstones are coarse, in places almost conglomeratic, yellowish brown and brown. The basalt varies on weathered surfaces from light gray through dark gray to nearly
