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timber of various kinds is abundant along the streams. Quercus nigra and obtusiloba are the most abundant trees on the hills except where pines take their place.
The pine is rather small and slender, probably has been thinned out for lumber as mills are common along the R.R.
It looks like P. teda or mites but I could not be sure.
Elms, Hicara, Quercus phillas & alba & others, Acer, Fraxinus; Platanus, Sweet Gum, Sour Gum, grow along the flats. did not see Sweet Gum till north of Standley where we strike lower land. not much there.
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The vegetation is rank and fresh grass it tall and flowers numerous. The same kind of mounds extend all along, on both prairie & timberland, flats and hills, also extend to Ft. Gibson
From Ft. Smith to Gibson the country is rolling, hilly, and flats, timber and prairie, splendid soil and vegetation and beautiful country. not much settled.
Fields of cotton at Ft. Smith & Ft. Gibson none along the R.R. S. of Smith. Corn and oats are the common crops. Geomys hills first seen at Ft. Smith 

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Not sure about P. [[mites?]], can't find anything that looks similar to Ponderosa mites. -@siobhanleachman Supplied capital. Did he mean Pinus mites?-nwmath I think you may be right nwmath so I've taken it out of brackets! -@siobhanleachman