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[[underlined]] Hondo Valley [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 10 [[/underlined]]. Remained at camp in canyon at old saw mill.

[[underlined]] Aug. 11 [[/underlined]] - Broke camp & went down to Toll house at mouth of canyon & camped for the night just below it. Hunted in the Hondo bottoms for a mile or two below camp, down among the farms. Found Costabicas, Gilias, Pentstemons, Lupines, & Helianthus flowering in great profusion and the humming birds swarming over them, Brilliant male [[underlined]]rufus [[/underlined]] were the most numerous but [[underlined]] Settala caliope [[/underlined]] were common.

The farms are in little squares like a checker board, running across the bottoms on both sides of the Hondo. Wheat, corn, and peas are the commonest crops but oats, barley, potatoes, squashes, cabbage, onions, lettuce and beets are raised. Lots of apples are raised & the trees are thrifty & bear well. Plums are raised & seem to be the big blue plum. Pears & some peaches are said to be raised & we saw a few cherry trees.