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[[underlined]] To Rio Puerco & Gallinas Mts. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct.5. [[/underlined]]
Found that we could not follow up the Gallinas River, a tiny sandy [[t??]] creek of red water, but had to keep around the east side of the mts. to the south end of the range. Passed through Capulin, another little Mexican settlement & cluster of half a dozen adobes, then over to Coyote Creek & across the Puerco River and camped at sundown at the south end of the main range. Another and apparently higher & partly detached range to the south seems to have no name unless it is called a part of the Gallinas. The main range around which we circled is called on the old land office map the Mesa Prieta & is really like a great rounded mesa. There is no peak & it is covered densely with timber, spruces pines & aspens. Now the aspens are bright yellow & give their color to fully half the surface of the mountains, mixed in with the black spruces.