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[[underline]] Lufkin to [[blank space]] [[/underline]]

[[underline]] June 21 [[/underline]]  Left Lufkin at 7:45 AM. and had to wait at Huntington for Beaumont train till 10.

Lufkin & [[crossout]]Beau[[/crossout]] Huntington are in solid forest of good timber for which the best lumber pine has been cut near the R.R.  Some reserved patches are full of good trees yet.  No new species noticed, practically the same set of trees as at Joaquin & Jefferson.  Flat country & good soil but not many farms.

Halfway between Huntington & Zavalla the first [[underline]]P. palustris[[/underline]] was seen & it soon came in as a forest of magnificent trees, large & close together with trunks 2-4 feet in diameter & 80 to 100 feet high, branched only at the top.  In places it stands with at least 20 such trees to the acre, forming a clean, open forest with only grass below.  Again it is mixed with other timber, but forms the dominant forest tree to edge of coast prairie 15 miles north of Beaumont.

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I changed "at best 20" to "at least 20"--thomasc