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The yuccas are tree like, 6 to 10 feet high below the flower stem and the cactus is unusually large, often 10 feet high and in large bunches. The soil is rich & the abundant short grasses hold the surface soil & moisture so that vegetation is rich. A few distant ridges have Junipers & nut pines on tops or stony slopes but a wide extent of country reaching to the S.W. base of the Mogollon Mts. is open and grassy. The Mts. rise with a steep and ragged front but with the higher peaks a little back. What is called Sacatone Peak is the big mountain I saw to the S.W. of "White Water Baldy" Oct. 23. It is on the very front of the range and a little snow shows over its shoulder. To the west low ridges are mainly treeless. The Frisco canyon cuts through there. 

We found Toxostoma crissale & [[strikethrough]] Campylo [[/strikethrough]] Helioditus in the cactus & yuccas & lots of cactus boreses

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of a Neotoma that I do not know, so camped & hunted & set traps.

Cynomys ludovicianus were seen here for the first time this summer. The last [[underlined]] gunnisoni [[/underlined]] seen were above the Frisco Canyon at Frisco & Joseph.

Transcription Notes:
I changed "S.W. mesa of the Mogollon Mts" to "S.W. base of the Mogollon Mts"--thomasc