Rito de los Frijoles, N.M. Tuesday, Aug. 9, 1910.
Partly cloudy this morning, More water in the creek this morning. Robbins and I started up stream just after breakfast, about 7 a.m., with an Indian boy to carry our lunch etc. and he took his shotgun. I took the 22-44 "Game Getter". Santiago Sanchez. This is his signature.
About 2 miles up we found a fine colony of Ashmunella, with Cochlicopa, Vallonia, Pyramidula and Zonitoides under narrow leafed cottonwood logs. At first spruces, about 1/2 mile further up, heard a pine squirrel but could not get a shot at him, nor even a good look. Saw a pair of sparrow hawks, probably desert form, and their nest but did not get a shot.
Bear tracks were reported here by Indians yesterday.
The canyon soon narrowed very much, becoming a deep, narrow, rocky gorge, the walls mostly of hard cap tufa For a long ways the creek is cutting beneath the cap on the NE side, forming an overhang of several feet. Occasionally the talus has forced the creek over so that it has formed a similar
