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[[underlined]] Sacramento Mts [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept.6 [[/underlined]]. From our camp a mile below [[underlined]] Weed [[/underlined]] we followed down the valley ^[[of the Ahuachee Creek]] 5 or 6 miles & then over the ridges and down Hunter Hill to the [[underlined]] Penasco [[/underlined]] which we struck 20 miles below Cloudcroft. Then followed up [[underlined]] James Canyon [[/underlined]] to within 12 miles of Cloudcroft & camped. Came about 20 miles.

Aneroid read 7000 at our mornings camp, about 7300 at top of Hunter Hill & 6600 at Penasco Creek, & 7500 at camp again. Down the valley of the Ahuachee Creek & in the Pencasco Valley we were in mainly [[strikethrough]] Lower [[/strikethrough]] Upper Sonoran zone with junipers & nut pines but the rest of the time in Yellow pine forest with douglas spruce on cold slopes. A few oak trees grow along the edge of the pines & scrub oak covers some of the sidehills.

The valleys have rounded bottoms of rich mellow soil & are extensively cultivated. Good crops of corn, wheat, oats, cane, & vegetables are raised besides fruit. Apples, peaches & peas are raised in abundance & of excellent quality. Sunflowers & other weeds grow in great luxuriance & often form beautiful fields of golden yellow.