For a two element ionic compound, the naming is simple. The first part of the name is the name of the metal element. The second part is the name of the nonmetal element, with the suffix â-ide.â. 1  Example: Al 2 O 3.
Exploration & Excavation in Chaco Canyon. It's believed that the first Europeans to see Chaco Canyon came in the 17th Century, when Spanish soldiers engaged in military actions against the Navajos first entered the Chaco area.
In doing so they formed the Rubio Canyon Land and Water Company (RCLWC) thatsurvives to this day. In the early 1890s, the entrepreneur ``Professor'' Thaddeus Lowe had grand plans for the San Gabriel foothills above Altadena.ut in 1867, a Mexican immigrant, Jesus Rubio, began farming near the mouth of the canyon, using the small but regular stream thatemerged from it to water his land claim. Jesus moved east in 1877 and the land was bought by a Dr. Hall and later, in 1880, by the Woodbury brothers.