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[[underlined]] Animas Valley  

Aug. 9 [[/underlined]] Followed down Indian Creek [[strikethrough]] to the d [[/strikethrough]] wash to the dry bed of Animas Creek, at 4800 feet, then south up the valley about 10 miles to the Gray Ranch, at 5000 feet. This is a broad, grassy valley some 10 miles wide between the Animas ^ [[insertion]] Mts [[/insertion]] & Cloverdale Hills. 
At the mouth of Indian Creek there is a strong trace of Lower Sonoran with much mesquite & chilopsis & Yucca radiosa, [[insertion]] 713 [[/insertion]] old Helioditus nests, lots of mocking birds [[insertion]] 703a [[/insertion]], etc. but south of here there is scarce a trace of Lower Sonoran. 
There are almost no bushes, and the heavily stocked slopes are grassy or barren. A few stunted [[strikethrough]] catsclaw [[/strikethrough]] & much dwarfed mesquites are scattered on south slopes and a few catsclaw bushes are seen. Live oak bushes come down washes an both sides, and a few ash & morus & Bumelia bushes or trees grow along wash banks. 
There is no water in Indian Creek or in Animas Creek except in the a narrow place on the Gray Ranch - [[strikethrough]] narrows where the creek cuts through a lava ridge & narrows at [[/strikethrough]]

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