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[[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.