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[[underlined]] Watkins Ranch to Hachita & Valley de las Playas. [[/underlined]] 40 miles.

Aug. 5. Left [[strikethrough]] Whitney [[/strikethrough]] Watkins ranch (4600) and followed up easy grade to pass in first ridge about 6 miles west (at 5000). then down across a wide valley about 10 miles (4700 at bottom) then over another low ridge at 4800, and down about 5 miles to Hachita, (at 4575) aneroid reading 70 feet too high)
Got mail & supplies and struck west for Adobe Spring, crossed valley bottom (at 4450) then up long wash to deserted ranch at 8 miles (good water, no grass) then about 5 miles farther up to sumit of ridge near Goldfield (5700) then down the west slope about 5 miles to Whitmire ranch at bottom of Valley de las Playas. and camped on east side of flooded playa.
Except for north slopes and higher parts of the 3 ranges crossed we were in pure and strongly marked Lower Sonoran zone all day. Most of the Lower Sonoran species, such as [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] P. glandulosa [[/insertion]] mesquite, [[insertion]] [[red checkmark]] C tridentata [[/insertion]] Creosote, [[red checkmark]] Koeberlinia, [[red checkmark]] Rhus microphylla, and others go through each of the passes on south slopes, while [[red checkmark]] Fouquerie ^ [[insertion]] Cereus [[?]] [[/insertion]] & other species are abundant only along the mountains.