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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] is 250 feet higher than Lordsburg but the country seems level all the way between. It just a continuation of the plain on which Lordsburg & Deming stand with practically the same set of Lower Sonoran plants all along. In places the valley is barren or merely grassy & on slopes that tilt to the north there is less evidence of Lower Sonoran while a south slope will usually be covered with Creosote & Mesquite etc. The Big Hatchet Mts to the south are so high and black with timbre toward the tops that I feel safe in coloring blue colored the crest of the range. Tho too far away recognize the timber with the glass. West of Hocbitee we go through a low gap in the low Hatelintas with plenty of lower sonoran plants going through into the Valley de las Playas, which is a little higher & less purely Lower Sonoran than the valleys on either side. Then through the gap in