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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] to El Paso & Cloudcroft [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] May 25 [[/underlined]] Hunted, made up skins, photographed and worked around the ranch. [[underlined]] May 26 [[/underlined]] Went down to Alpine in evening & waited for El Paso train till 1 A.M. [[strikethrough]] in morning. [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] May 27. [[/underlined]] Took train in night & woke up near Sierra Blanca. Found the same old, dry, barren desert with its rich oder of creosote bush. Arrived at El Paso at 8:40 & found there was no Sunday train for Almogordo. Went to the hotel Pierson & then over to Juarez. A hot day. [[underlined]] May 28 [[/underlined]] Left El Paso at 10:30 AM for Almogardo, N.M. Passed Ft. Bliss out on the mesa. a neat looking post on a barren Larrea plain. A typical desert. Continued on over smooth desert valley, growing more sandy [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] and barren, between bare rocky ranges of desert mts. No timber, no streams, no water. As the soil becomes more sandy the Yuccas (a tall form of angustifolia)