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[[underlined]] Cainagra [[/underlined]]

[[red checkmark]] [[underlined]] Cainagra [[/underlined]] - is the Mex. name of [[underlined]] Rumex alata [[/underlined]], which grows abundantly in the sandy soil around Deming. It has big fleshy roots like carrots, dark red & astringent like rhubarb.

Hotchkiss tells me this is extensively used in tanning leather & that a tannery was put up at Deming to utilize it. & a ranch started to raise it. Says it tans very well but colors the leather very dark red. He has used it on buckskin. He says the root sells for about 8 dollars a ton & on wild sand a ton can be plowed up on a few [[roads?]]

This might be a valuable crop for sand that will raise nothing else. It grows native in the Nebraska & Kansas sandhill regions & where nothing else will grow. The roots are storehouses for moisture

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[[underlined]] To Silver City & back to Deming

Aug.3. [[/underlined]] From Deming to Faywood, or beyond the scond crossing of the Mimbres, Lower Sonoran shrubs are abundant, [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] P. glandulosa [[/insertion]] low mesquite, big green [[red checkmark]] Ephedra, [[red checkmark]] Zizyphus, [[red checkmark]] Guterrizia, and tall [[red checkmark]] Yucca radiosa. From the [[strikethrough]] Ann [[/strikethrough]] Mimbres to about 6 miles south of Silver City it is grassy plains with very little else, [[strikethrough]] ecp [[/strikethrough]] except a few [[red checkmark]] Yucca radiosa on south slopes. Then real Upper Sonoran species begin on the foothills, [[red checkmark]] Nolina, [[red checkmark]] Juniperus pachyphloea & [[red checkmark]] monosperma, [[red checkmark]] Quercus arizonica, [[red checkmark]] Mimosa biuncifera. The [[red checkmark]] Yucca radiosa stop abruptly where these plants begin. The question is whether to map the neutral grassy strip as upper or lower Sonoran? The same question applies to wide strips east & west of Deming. It is not pure (or strongly marked) Lower Sonoran, but aside from grass there is not an Upper Sonoran plant.

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