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The Comanche & Castilla valleys are wide, grassy park like valleys with here & there a grove or point of timber coming down on the side slopes. They afford fine summer ranges for cattle & sheep - are in the Sangre de Christo grant & evidently are leased or rented to mainly non resident stockmen. We saw a few sheep camps but no ranches. A few old abandoned ranches mark the places where early settlers were driven out of the grant. One old saw mill above the mouth of Comanche Creek was abandoned with a big pile of logs left unsawed.

The timber along the sides of the valley is mainly Picea pungens and Aspens, but a few Psudotsugas were seen and on rocky slopes Pinus arristata comes down close to the creek & river. The valleys are mainly Canadian zone but probably carry a trace of Transition.

Cynomys gunnisoni are abundant and badger holes & Thomomys fossor mounds common.