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[[underlined]] Oct. 30 [[/underlined]]. A clear night and only a light frost. Started at 9 A.M. and reached the top of ridge above sawmill at 1 P.M. without trouble or accident Had to dig out the side of road in places and cut out a couple of trees. Found an inch of snow along the highest part of road - 9300 feet. Lunched at top & then went smoothly down the lumber road to Mogollon, from 9250 to 6850 (10 miles) by 4:30 Got mail & supplies & started on but got stuck in canyon near mill & had to camp in Deadwood Gulch just above it at 7000 feet.  Aneroid read the same as on the way over. Found the upper end of Upper Sonoran as before at mile up the gulch from Mogollon at 7000 feet. Here we struck Negundo, Alnus trees, Juglans rupestris, nut pines, junipers, Quercus grisea, Cercocarpus & the whole set of Sonoran plants. 

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Also saw a few Rhamnos purshiana & a bush of Acer grandidentata along the creek. The shrubby oak, Q. leucophylla? seems to be transition as it is mainly above Mogollon ^[[insertion]] or [[/insertion]] on cold slopes below.

[[underlined]] Oct. 31[[/underlined]] - Down to mouth of White water Creek & camped at [[strikethrough]] 5000 [[/strikethrough]] 4700 feet at its junction with San Francisco. The San Francisco River here runs through a crooked, narrow canyon with only little patches of bottom land, but 2 miles below it opens out in a broad, fertile well farmed valley. The White Water valley is wide enough for a series of good ranches and is mainly under cultivation. Good orchards of peach, apple & pear trees are seen and the apples we got at the store are excellent. Some are enormous and were sent to the county fair at Socorro. Other crops raised are alfalfa, Potatoes, Onions beets, turnips