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[[underlined]] Playas to Animas Valley & Mts.

Aug. [[strikethrough]] 7 [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]]. 6 Crossed the playa without any trouble & found the water only about 4 inches deep and the bottom solid. The water is thick & creamy and alkaline. It forms a lake 3 or 4 miles long & half a mile wide.
On the west shore are some cattle ranches and springs of the best water we have found since leaving Deming. Cottonwoods & willows grow on the wet ground. From here we struck west to a low pass in northern part of the Animas Range & Crossing at 5000 feet and turning south along the east side of Animas valley we kept at about 5000 feet to 12 or 15 miles south of the pass to "the Adobe", a cattle camp on Double Adobe Cr. [[strikethrough]] # [[/strikethrough]] at 5100. Here we learned that [[strikethrough]] (boys were [[/strikethrough]] Goldman & Birdseye were in a canyon about 4 miles farther south, so we pushed on and got into camp about 5 P.M. at 5800 feet in Apache Canyon at north base of Animas Peak. The camp is in an open live oak gulch with only pools of water.