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[[underline]] Nov. 7. [[/underline]]

It cleared up & was a warm night after all, hardly froze -

Started at 7 oclock, followed the R.R. in valley 6 miles, then turned of to the east & went up a cañon. road said to be better & 3 miles shorter. All up hill for about 8 miles to the divide, where we are probably 2000 feet above valley. A small stream runs down the cañon & a narrow valley makes room for two good long ranches where they raise lots of hay & barley.

The fields & meadows are [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] about 30 rods [[strikethrough]] long [[/strikethrough]] wide & several miles long. Juniper & Pinus edulis monophylla grow thickly over the mountains often getting well up the cañon

One is about as common as the other & all intermixed. Ephedria anticiphytitica is also common - the first I have seen this year - Could see no other trees on the mountains- Artimesia tridentata covers most of them - Bigelovia tortifolia & Tetridimea are common. 

The Pinus monophylla has different cones & leaves from those I found at Mineral Park, Arizona, I send specimens. Also of the cedar. could find no cedar berries. Milo Slovan, of Battle Mountain told me that the Piñon

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