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[[underlined]] Aug. 27 [[/underlined]] - Started Cary & Donald for Pecos & Monahans to work about 3 weeks, mainly in the sand hill region about Monahans. 

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[[underlined]] Toyah [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 28 [[/underlined]] Left Toyah at 9:30 A.M. & headed for the high peak at the South end of the Guadalupe Mts. some 80 mi. to the N.W. Traveled all day over open Larrea plains, slightly up grade. Aneroid reading 3000 at Toyah and 3800 at our camp at the Cottonwoods at night, 35 miles from Toyah. 

The country is arid Lower Sonoran with a great deal of gypsum in the soil and rocks & water. At present there is a splendid growth of grass & vegetation over the country, lots of flowers that should have bloomed in the spring but waited for rain. There is lots of good rain water in the tanks & pools all along except in the gypsum hills where we camped. Here we found only a spring creek standing on beds of gypsum & saturated with it so as to be almost undrinkable. 

While most of the country passed over is pure Lower Sonoran we strike a strong Upper Sonoran element at one nights camp on the east slope of the low range of hills, with