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[[underlined]] June 23 [/underlined]]  Broke camp & turned north to the [[strikethrough]] Cl [[/strikethrough]] Concha Creek near junction with Cuervo Creek where we struck an old, well travelled road leading up Cuervo Cr. to Lopazville We then followed up little Cuervo Cr. and struck due west across big open plains toward Cabra Spring and camped at a rain pool on the plains. Came about 20 miles or 25. Aneroid at camp in morning read 4800 and at night 5600. We came up a slight grade all day. Left Mesquite and all Lower Sonoran species in the valley of Little Cuervo Creek below 5000. On the higher plains there is only short grass, Gutierrzea euthanae, Yucca glauca, Opuntia arborescens & other inconspicuous plants. For cooking supper we had a little cactus wood but mainly clow chips.

Junipers & nut pines begin on the mesa one or two miles south of us and cover the ridges north of the Concha. The high buttes & mesas north of the Concha seem to have tall timber on top.