Bright and early the next morning Mr.Scheerer himself appeared on the scene and guided us to his home, where he entertained us most hospitably during our entire stay.

The trip from Trinidad, a distance of four miles, was made over a wretched pony trail.
We found conditions exactly as described in the Spanish report.

The country was gently rolling, its elevation ranging from forty-five hundred to fifty-two hundred feet.

The hills were covered with short, thick grass, and with magnificent pine trees, which for the most part grew at considerable distance from each other, while along the streams there were wonderful tree ferns and luxuriant tangles of beautiful tropical vegetation.

It took us but a short time to decide that here was an ideal site for a future city, if water could be found in sufficient quantity.
We revisited each of the several springs discovered and described by the Spanish committee, but decided that they would be inadequate to supply a town of any great size.