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[[underlined]] To El Vado & south [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 3 [[/underlined]]. Broke camp at Stinking Lake & came down to El Vado, got mail & supplies & then started south for Gallinas Mts. For about 10 miles we traveled over barren, sheep eaten sagebrush valley with no water, no grass, & almost no live vegetation. The escarpment to the west is covered with timber & in one place we crossed a juniper & nut pine ridge only to come back into the valley of another dry wash. About sundown we found a muddy rain pool & watered the horses & filled our keg & went on a mile or two to the first good grass we have seen [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] since leaving El Vado & camped at the west base of a Pine covered peak, called on the old land office map Gallinas Peak. We were just on the edge of the sheep range with a big flock half a mile back of us. but the gramma grass is tall & thick & good. 

Aneroid at El Vado read 7000 feet, at camp 7200, but only 7100 the next morning.