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but well worth saving for the snow they hold & distribute in numerous streams on all sides. There is abundance of water, fine soil, & good timber if the country is ever developed beyond what the lazy Mexican squatters on the few naturally fertile & easily irrigable patches along the creeks care to do. If sheep could be controlled & the lumber company that is working its way south from El Vado could be headed off this would be a Paradise - if not it will soon be a barren, unfruitful form of Hades. If it could be rescued soon there is game enough to restock & make as good a game & trout region as there is out doors, but now the game is scarce.

I saw a few turkey signs in the camp & shot 2 blue grouse on top of the ridge but saw no signs of deer or bear. Could not resist getting out my hook & line & in a few minutes caught 10 fine trout near the head of Coyote Cr.