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[[underlined]] Pecos High Bridge [[/underlined]]

He is also apparently a good trapper & hunter & especially a beaver trapper.  Will get skulls & things for us next winter.  Moreover he is a good cook & knows how to pick out a choice fish for a steak & to make delicious coffee.  I enjoyed dinner & supper with him, as well as a long, interesting talk about the country, fish & animals. 

Went up the river a couple of miles to the beaver lake in a side canyon & got some photos of it & of the beaver cuttings but the water is so high the dam is out of sight. The lake is a natural reservoir filled from the river at high water. It runs back half a mile up the deep canyon & is overhung by willows, a very pretty place. [[strikethrough]]&[[/strikethrough]]  While there I planned a scheme for starting a beaver ranch & asked Seawel why it would not be a great thing.  He says the beaver are too solitary & ferocious in disposition, that only one family will usually live in a pond & these fight or kill any others.