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[[underlined]] June 8 [[/underlined]]. Went to Santa Rosa early & found my long delayed check had arrived. Now we can get a supply of grub & grain & pull out. Packed specimens & sent Surber to town for supplies in P.M.

[[underlined]] June 9 [[/underlined]]. Broke camp & started east on the Tucumcari road. Four miles took us onto open plains with a steady up grade for 12 or 14 miles to the highest point on the ridge, or swell, between the Pecos & Canadian valleys, then we descended more rapidly down an eastern slope to Cuervo and camped 2 miles beyond in a cove of the high wall like rim of the plains. The aneroid set at Santa Rosa at 6420 feet ^[[ [= 4620] ]] read at one Ague Nigra camp about 4750, at lunch on the plains 10 miles east of Santa Rosa, 5000, at highest point on the road, about 15 miles east of Santa Rosa 5100, at Cuervo and Cuervo Camp 5000.

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