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[[underline]] Gallinas Mts. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Oct. 10 [[/underline]]. Crossed the Coyote Creek canyon & followed up the east fork of Coyote Cr. to near its head on the big ridge that is a southern extension of the Mts. we are in & probably should stand as a part of the Gallinas range. No one seems to know any name for it, but the "habitants" say "all same Gallinas." It is the best part of the range, being on a level with the mts. N.W. of us - 10400 approximately. More streams rise in this ridge & the top is beautiful park & spruce country with meadows & little lakes - but it is easily accessible to the sheep ranches all round and is eaten off bare & clean. Even the woods are so sheeped out as to present bare ground & bare trunks. The timber has been burnt off as far as possible, but fortunately the yellow pines stand burning pretty well & have not been injured much while much of the higher spruce forest will not burn. This leaves