The following day Brick rode through Big Elk Cañon alone. He found plenty of evidence that cattle had been butchered, but was unable to find anything that would show who owned the animals nor who had done the killing.
The cañon was almost a cul-de-sac. On both sides were beetling cliffs which had sloughed off until the slopes were piled high with slide-rock, making it impassable to hoofed animals. The bottom of the cañon was not over fifty feet wide at any spot, fairly well timbered. On the left hand side, going toward the head of the cañon, were little tributary cañons, where Silent had found evidences of butchered cattle. At the head of the cañon, a winding trail led up through the timber to the grades which led to the Red Hill mine. Brick took plenty of time to examine the side cañons,
