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elsewhere well in the nut pine & juniper belt with a little scrub oak, & Q. gambeli. The country is dry and rather barren. Much of the timber has been cut off and the grass is short & scarce.
A few small rancheros are scattered along the foothills and native goats and little garden patches are the only signs of industry. 
A little lower, in the valley the country seems to be mainly open, arid valley with a dry desert look. The arroyas are mainly dry but in one or two little springs and small streams trickled out. 
Santa Fe Creek is a good stream, furnishing plenty of water for the  town and irrigated ranches below, and from the distance there seemed to be some farming along the Rio Grande bottoms. 
The Sante Fe region is Upper Sonoran. Its plants are juniper & nut pine, live oak scrub, Q. gambeli, Rhus Trilobata, Guiterrizia euthamæ[[?]]: Bigelovia canescens? , B albicaulis?