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and much higher up. A deep gulch comes down on each side of the ridge, the one on the south up which the R.R. runs and the one on the north in which Mr. Gale lives 80 feet below Gold Hill. The ridge has a long, gentle slope on top, but both sides are steep & rocky down to the gulch bottoms. Timberline is not more than 10 miles west of here & there the tall peaks run up steep & sharp & white with snow. 
The common tree around Gold Hill is Pinus murrayana, although P. ponderosa grows on the warm slopes. It is the meeting ground of Transition & Canadian zones, Canadian reaching from 8000 on N.E. slopes upward & Transition reaching above 8300 feet on S.W. slopes. Canadian is marked by Pinus murryana, Populus tremuloides, Picea pungens, Pseudotsuga. 

[[underline]] Transition zone [[/underline]] is marked by Pinus ponderosa, Populus angustifolia, [[insert]] Pseudotsuga [[/insert]], Alnus incana, Acer glabrum & Amelanchier alnifolia, Prunus virginiana, Prunus racemosa?