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[[underlined]] To Boulder Lake [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Sept. 14. [[/underlined]] Got mail & grub at Tierra Amarilla and started west for Boulder Lake (or Rock Lake as usually called) on the [[strikethrough]] Mes [[/strikethrough]] Jicarilla Reservation. The Indians have their annual "fiesta" there tomorrow & as the agent will be there it is my simplest way to report to him for work on the reservation.

From Tierra Amarilla we cross about 2 miles of sagebrush valley before striking the Chama River. Then we soon strike into open yellow pine woods which continue 10 miles farther to where we strike the Chama River again near the saw mill where a mixture of nut pine & juniper covers south slopes. Filled our keg at the river & then followed up a half dry, alkalie encrusted arroyo 10 miles farther to Boulder Lake & camped. Aneroid at Tierra Amarilla read 7500, at the Chama R. 7200 and at the river near the sawmill 6950. At camp near Boulder Lake 7300.

Most of the country is yellow pine Transition with open sagebrush valleys between ridges.