San Francisco River

The following morning climbing to 450 feet and then dropping down the 1,500 foot Mogollon grade across the rocky face of the bare southwest slope of the mountains, a striking contrast to the heavily timbered northeast slope from which we had come.

We finally reached the stage station of Glenwood at the junction of Whitewater Creek with the San Francisco River.

We had come down 4,000 feet in 28 hours from 9,000 feet at the top of Willow Creek Canyon to 5,000 feet at the foot of the Mogollon Mountains.

After rattling down the cold mountain grades we were glad to camp here for a few days work, pitching our tents in a little amphitheater that was warm and still and filled with sunny nut pines and junipers.