Daybook (October 24 1879 - January 31 1881)
22 {shorthand} we left the Gulch & drove 12 miles further up the mountain it was bear ground & snow
and the earth soft & very hard drawing we camped in the cedars 12 Miles
23. we visited a crack in the Earth 100 yards long 20 feet wide at the tops & 10 feet
wide lower down it was supposed No bottom could be found we rolled off rocks of
hundred pounds weight and they would strike shelves below break in peaces &
the sound be [herd] in the distance But on our return afterwards with the use of a
Glass we could see the bottom but it diped from South to North on an angle
of 45 degrees it was probably 500 feet Deep
