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[[underlined]] Aug.10 [/underlined]]  Went with Mr. Finley & his men & a pack of 6 or 7 hounds up into several of the canyons & caught one Thocyon. Set traps in the peach orchard for Cratogeonys.

Mr. Finley has about a dozen peach trees near the water tank & they are now so loaded with fruit that some are breaking down with delicious ripe peaches.  They bear about once in 3 years Mr. Finley says, the frost killing the flowers on intervening years.  I can not learn of apples being raised here, but see no reason why they would not do splendidly, especially higher up in the canyons where the oaks & junipers grow.  Probably frost would kill the flowers in the bottom of gulches but on side benches 50 to 100 feet above the main floor of the canyons they ought to do well, especially on the cool slopes.  It may be too dry for them to bear every year but probably apples to supply western Texas could be raised in these mts. in favorable seasons, & apples of the best quality.