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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Hops grow in wild profusion over the bushes & are loaded with fruit. Chokecherries are abundant & just ripening & the trees are full of robins & cedar birds. Ribes leptanthum grows in great clumps & hedge rows & is loaded with ripe fruit that is delicious if you risk the thorns in getting it. The people do not seem to use them much & only the birds pick them extensively. The Mexicans live in little adobe houses in as primative a style as could be imagined, irrigating their little fields & living apparently on what they can raise. Their yards are usually full of hollyhocks, poppies, marigolds & such homely flowers. In the middle of the valley is the little old town of Valdez - long called San Antonio, as typically oriented a village as could be found in the heart of Mexico. The mesa along the sides of the river valley is 300 or 400 feet above.