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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Beaver Lake is merely an old slough in the river bed - probably fed & kept up by a spring, but now it is low with no water flowing out. It is full of fish & I shot a sucker for supper & another for breakfast. Saw lots of bass, sunfish, & a gar. Lots of birds come around the water. Shot a Sciurus notabilis & a Contopus virens & saw Actitia, & Empidonax. The sides of the valley rise in steep terraces of lime stone, half barren, to a height of 200 or 300 feet above the valley, flat topped ridges full of side cuts & gulches & long draws. Stock is too abundant for the grass & both valley & hillsides are eaten bare. The country besides being arid is suffering from drouth. A few showers seem to have struck this locality not long ago, as the mesquite has come out in flowers again while the old pods are ripe & falling.
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"drouth" = drought.