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[[underlined]] To Salt Valley [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept. 1 [[/underlined]] A cold, rainy morning. We tried to keep warm & dry for awhile & then packed up & started in the rain & most froze till we crossed the divide of the ridge & got down into the canyon leading out to the big Salt Valley below. The divide was somewhat lower than our camp in the Pine Canyon, probably about 5500 feet. Found a fairly good road down the steep west slope to base of escarpment, probably 500 feet down, & struck the full set of lower sonoran plants at the base. Continued west down a gentle slope of the valley about 10 miles from the ridge & camped a few miles back from the salt flat opposite the north end of the Diablo Mts. on the west & not quite so far north as Guadalupe Peak. Came about 20 miles. Aneroid 4000 at camp in valley.

the limestone of the escarpment of the ridge running south of the Guadalupes is alternated with sandstone & shale & black streaks that appear to be coal or carboniferous shale.