Bud got breakfast & dressed Daddy's back. Very hot day. Stock
came in about 2. Tied up Billy Maud & Cora. Bud has had headache.
Monte & Pete did not come in. Bud went after them & found them 4
miles away where we killed the Gila monster. Sent 2 samples from
big ledge to Tucson for assay. Daddy better.

June 15.

Up 2.30. Bud left for Bend at 4. Walked down to flat but could
not see stock. About 3 Cora & Colt came in for water & Sway & Ed
from the south about 5. No Monte. Monte got in about midnight &
went past kitchen to creek on run. Got up, found him very nervous
& frightened & tied him up.

June 17.

Bud got back 4 P.M. in gale of wind & sand. Burros did not come
in for water. Very hot. Bud brought canned stuff. Rigged gallows
for No. 2 shaft also block & tackle & pail for drinking water,
also washed clothes. While drying went around in cap undershirt &
shoes.

June 18.

Burros came in during night for water. Hot as nether depths of
infernal regions. Went up on hill a mile away. Seamed with veins
similar to shaft No. 2 ore. Blew in two faces & got good looking
ore seamed with a black incrustation, oxide of something, but
what could not determine. Could find neither silver nor copper in