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side slopes and saccatone over the flats in great abundance for winter feed. The more moist areas are covered with fine corn & squashes & melons and this year the crops have been unusually good without irrigation. Fields are scattered here & there where ever a patch of moist ground is available, are unfenced & of irregular form. The corn is generally rowed one way and worked some with the large hoes which they use.

Junipers & nut pines border the valleys & cover the ridges & mesas. The valley is hot Upper Sonoran with firm soil and some sub irrigation. The dry farming methods would apply here to great advantage. But the Indians seem to raise enough in their primitive way & are content.

As we passed close to the base of the Enchanted Mesa it towered some 400 or 500 feet above the plain in a superb yellow sandstone butte with sheer walls on all sides, save two places where water has cut out gashes & made it possible to get up by ladders & ropes