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[[underlined]] To Lang Ranch at Monument, [[strikethrough]] 22 [[/strikethrough]] Mex. Boundary 

Aug. 10 [[/underlined]], Left Grays Ranch at 5000 and drove 17 miles South to Lang Ranch at NE base San Luis Mts. at Monument [[strikethrough]] 22 [[/strikethrough]] Mex. boundary Survey & camped for the night. about half way up the valley we crossed a ridge 100 feet high (5200 feet) that forms a divide and makes a great playa or lake bed south of it, 6 or 8 miles across. The valley all the way is open, grassy or barren mesa, 10 or 15 miles wide between the Animas & Cloverdale Mts. & southward as far as we could see into Mexico between the San Luis & a little range south of the Cloverdales. The valley is all Upper Sonoran, tho a trace of much dwarfed mesquite is found on all south slopes. Nolina and live oaks grow along the borders & Junipers & oaks on the foothills.
The San Luis Mts are high and black with timber, extensive bodies of oak low down, and tall pines along the crest and upper slope.
There have been recent rains & grass is good over the

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I believe the "22" strikethrough give the number of a Boundary monument of the Mexican boundary survey. Monument might be one that is numbered 22 but what then do the strikethroughs mean? reviewed -@meg_shuler