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The bottoms are sandy but rich from annual floods and generally covered with rank vegetation. Sunflower & ragweeds grow 10 or 12 feet high in perfect jungles, Johnson grass grows higher than my head as also do cockleburs. The giant old cottonwoods (P. fremonti) are sometimes 6 or 8 feet in diameter with spreading tops, now golden in autumn foliage, are the vast striking feature of the valley. The river is clear and rapid with now and then deep pools. There is abundance of water for irrigation and crops are good if well worked. Corn is the main crop raised and grows to great size, but is often a swamp of weeds. Alfalfa & vegetables are also raised and chili where there are Mexicans.

[[underlined]] Lower Sonoran [[/underlined]] zone is indicated on hot slopes by some mesquite, by Tessaria borealis? and Chilopsis saligua along washes, by abundance of Phorodendron full of beautiful berries loading the cottonwoods, willows, oaks, and mesquite, dry Yucca radiosa on mesas

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& by Rhamnas californiea in gulches. 

Also by Lophortyx gambeli ^[[insertion]] Callipopla [[/insertion]], Geococcyx, Pipilo aberti, Dryobates s. baridi, Melopilia in summer,

And by Reithrodontomys, Perognanthus [[blank space]], Perodipus, Vulpes macrotis, Conepatus, Spilogale.

[[underlined]] Nov. 7 & 8 [[/underlined]] Remained at our camp near the Gila making up specimens from Cactus Flat & along the road, setting traps & hunting in the bottoms along Gila River, and writing reports. Caught 2 kit foxes & a few other mammals.  

Transcription Notes:
I changed "Remained at one camp" to "Remained at our camp" in the Nov 7 & 8 entry.--thomasc