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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Cloudcroft [[/underlined]] become more abundant, rising with trunks 8 or 10 feet high surmounted by flower stalks 5 or 6 feet. For miles these Yuccas form the bulk of vegetation. They are not in flower. The country is very dry. Old dry grass is abundant but not a green blade. The bunches of dwarf mesquite are the only green things. In places it has caught the sand & formed dunes 4 to 10 feet high. Extensive prair dog towns near Ft. Bliss. [[underlined]] Jarillo Junction [[/underlined]] - 1 P.M. Artemisia filifolia?, Atriplex canescens, Ephedra trifurcata, Prosopis juliflora, Yucca stricta & grass are the principal plants. On the east the Sacramento Mts. rise abruptly in a wall of stratified limestone several thousand feet high & back of that we get glimpses of a higher, timber covered range. Reached Alamogorda at 3 P.M. & took narrow ga[[strikethrough]] u [[/strikethrough]]gue [[gague]] log train for the mountains of Cloudcroft. A few miles north of Alamogordo we turn up a canyon to the coast & climb steadily
Transcription Notes:
Jarillo Junction = Vernon may mean Jarilla Junction now known as Orogrande in New Mexico.