At the upper fall there is an approximately vertical contact of the basalt with tufa, thus: ((drawing in field book)). I believe that the source of the basalt is in the canyon just above the upper fall, where numerous vertical and some horizontal contacts with the tufa are seen and in one place the tufa immediately overlying the basalt is much burned. The main body of the basalt is certainly much younger than the tufa and sandstone and probably all that we have seen today except the fragments in the sandstone. It would be interesting to know the origin of the latter.
Reached camp at 4 p.m. Judge Abbott says that a man named Otero in Santa Fe claims to have caught lots of trout in the creek here, but as Otero also says a man living in the canyon dug a well it is probable that the creek had dried up, so I doubt the story.
Hot day, no rain.
