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[[underlined]] To Alamosa & Del Norte [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 30 [[/underlined]] - Took a 7 oclock train for Alamosa & had to stay there over night. Stopped at the Victoria Hotel & found it excellent.

[[underlined]] Aug. 31 [[/underlined]] - Took a 7 oclock A.M. train for Del Norte & reached there at 9. Went to Windsor Hotel & then tramped over the hills till noon. In P.M. got a horse & buggy & drove up the valley 3 miles west & set traps for Reithrodontomys.

The Rio Grande Valley closes in about 25 or 30 miles above Del Norte but to that point it is a beautiful, wide, farming valley full of good farms, big ditches, fruit trees, & nice homes & towns.

Upper Sonoran zone covers the valley & well up the side slopes all around. Juniper & nut pine form a belt over the foothills [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] below Pinus ponderosa. Then the open valley is covered with Bigelovia canescus & other species, Gutierrizia, Atriplex canescens,