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[[underlined]] To Cloudcroft [[/underlined]]

Sept. 7. Followed up an easy grade with good road & camped about a mile & half east of Cloudcroft. Aneroid at camp 7500, at night camp 8700.

At about 5 miles east of Cloudcroft we struck the edge of Canadian zone on N.E. slopes at 8000 feet, where we left P. ponderosa & struck Abies, Picea, Populas tremuloides, Acer & a new set of smaller plants.  No more transition appears except on hot slopes.

Picea is the most abundant Canadian zone tree. The Canadian forest is dense & beautiful, untouched & perfect. 

The yellow pine is being cut below & a spur of the railroad runs out 2 miles east of the pumping station. 

We did not find the little Eutamias above 8000 feet, not in Canadian zone. At a ranch I found a pair of large old elk horns & photographed them as I could not buy them. Bought a head of a whitetail & blacktail & saw another head of a larger white tail with horns in the velvet.