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[[underline]]To Lakeside[[/underline]].

The Indians raise a little wheat & barley & squashes & corn but nothing to mark a zone. The benches & mesas would doubtless raise good oranges & other Lower Sonoran products. The soil is good & there is plenty of water at present in the San Diego River besides that in the large flume bordering the valley. The great abundance of elderberries, now ripening, may have attracted the Indians as well as the Phanipeplas to this valley. After turning west the valley is narrow and canyon like and the sides are covered with chapperal. The moist ocean winds come through it & evidently cool it to the air Upper Sonoran temperature, while the valley above is cut off from this wind. About 5 miles before I reach Lakeside the valley opens out with wide bottoms & some ranches. Around the slightly elevated margins of the valley the eucalyptis, pepper trees, and orange groves would indicate Lower Sonoral zone. Even at Lakeside, near the lake & flat