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Note - all these altitudes are from the barometer with Little Spring at 8,150 as a base, & do not correspond to the map contours.
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[[boxed - different writing]] Afterwards corrected the altitude of Little Spring to 8,250 feet, so 100 feet should be added to all altitude here given - C.H.M.
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Oct. I drank a little of it but was so bad Cub wouldnt touch it. Found a dirty Greaser hearding sheep but he couldnt talk English nor understand my Spanish.
I went back & around east of the little peak & climbed a long, steep road up to the top of the saddle south of it, which is 8475 ft.
On top of this saddle I found the first Pseudotsuga douglasi & Pinus flexalis ^[[insertion]] & Popples [[/insertion]] mixed with ^[[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] Ponderosa. The road then goes down the ridge about 100 feet [[?]] into the basin about Smiths Spring.
This is a pretty park basin of some 40 acres
The 4 species of last named trees come down to the bottom all around the sides.
Reached Smiths at 1 P.M. Noone at home. Eat my lunch & went on up the "crater trough", which is too wide for a cañon but a very deep valley.
Followed this about a mile to 8900 feet.
At the ranch the stream is small & in the evening was dry. A mile above it is a roaring little creek with water at a temperature of 44.5 [[degree symbol]].
Going up the bottom of the valley I met Abes concolor at 8700 feet. Pinus ponderosa stops in the bottom but runs up the N. side - facing S. - 100 feet higher.
Picea englemani begins in the bottom at

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Think the different writing on first page is that of C. Hart Merriam's. -@siobhanleachman