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[[left page blank]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] San Angelo [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] May 18 [[/underlined]] San Angelo is on the open, mesquite plain in the genuinely arid region. There are great stretches of smoothe surfaces with only short grass & little desert plants, but much of the country is covered with a scattered growth of small mesquites. The Concho River has cut a narrow channel in the limestone & has steep clay or rocky banks. A double line of fine large pecan trees grow along its banks. The conspicuous plants [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] beside mesquite & pecan are Cordyba, Lyssium, Acacia ramarians, Mimosa fragrans, Diospiras, Altis, Zyziphys, Schrankia, Yuccas, Apenitia engelivani, O. ----- (dark centered). O. suffruticosa, Echinocactus, Cereus, Wamilaria. Prairie dogs are numerous and generally distributed. Spermophile holes & Neotoma nests are common but I don't know the species. There are no Geomys. Badger holes are common & a badger was brought into town alive today.