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juniper & yellow pine country, open woods with good grass but little water. The 3 settlements mentioned were all we saw.

At camp the aneroid read 8000, at the Hondo River 7600, at Agua de Lobo 8500 at San Cristobal 8100, at Lama [[?]] 8800, camp near Red River 8000.

The whole country north of the Hondo & east of the Rio Grande is covered with either yellow pine, mainly on N.E. slopes or above 8500 feet on S.W. slopes or a fine growth of nut pine & juniper, including both species of juniper. The timber also extends along both sides of the Red River Valley, but open plain stretch north from near Questa. On the west side of the Rio Grande the numerous craters & lava ridges are all timbered with yellow pine or nut pine which covers more than half of the country. The open valley strips are arid sage plains that wind around the buttes. The Rio Grande Canyon is all