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[[underlined]] July 8. [[/underlined]] Remained at camp, collecting, setting traps etc.

[[underlined]] July 9 & 10. [[/underlined]] At same camp, beautiful weather with a shower somewhere every day.  Our grove of fine old cottonwoods is cool and beautiful.  It is on the land of a Mr. Taber, who hospitably gives the choice of his field for a camp place. 

[[underlined]] July 11. [[/underlined]]  Broke camp and started at noon for Pecos and up the Pecos River.  Stopped at Pecos for supplies & to arrange about mail, then continued up the river valley about 12 miles and camped above the mouth of Indian Creek.  Found ranches, camps & Mexican settlements all along the river bottoms and a lot of nice looking club houses in the settlement part of the valley just before we reach the edge of the Timber reserve.  Most of the places are posted & no shooting or fishing allowed. 

The Pecos Valley is narrow with steep slopes coming down to the river bed on one side & to the narrow bottoms on the other.  The flat bottom of valley