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plants - junipers, nut pines, live oaks, sunflowers, atriplex, etc. comes up to agency in the bottom of valley & to 200 or 300 feet above on steep, rock, hot slopes.

We saw no trace of upper Sonoran in east slope of range. Spruces come down to saw mill on N.E. slope but the valley is full of yellow pine. & lots of fields of oats are raised and some small corn. Still it is frosty there sometimes in June & July.

As near as I can tell over half of the reservation lies in Transition zone, about one third in Canadian, & only a little in Upper Sonoran. Mr. Carroll tells me that most of the indians are in the valleys of the Elk & Tulerosa, the greater number in the Tulerosa above & below the agency. This is the warmest part of the reservation with a big, well watered valley & in reach of nut pines. but the best grazing country is on the east slope of the mts.

In going from the summit down to the agency I followed a gently sloping, round bottomed valley between pine covered