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[[underlined]] to [[strikethrough]] Ruidoso [[/strikethrough]] Sawmill & up Elk Valley [[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] Sept. 11 [[/underlined]]. After spending the night with the agent & sheep man Bremont I returned a few miles along the road till I met the boys with the outfit. We stopped at several indian camps & got a few photographs, skins & baskets, then followed up the valley & over the divide & camped at 7500 feet about 5 miles east of the agency. At the summit the aneroid read 8600.

Kept in Yellowpine transition zone all the way except on N.E. slopes going down the gulch on west slope of mts. The same beautiful, open, grassy forest with park like valleys that have never lost the round form of bottom left by the glaciers.

Shot 7 Spermophilus 13-linatus of a little dark, undersized form that is common in the park from the mill up to about 8300 feet. Saw a colony of Cynomys Ludoricianus at about 8300 feet. 

Carried a keg of water & made a dry camp as there is no water on the way between the saw mill & Agency.