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Animas Mts.

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[[red underlined]] boxelder [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] walnut trees [[/red underlined]] are scattered along. There are lots of [[underlined]] rock squirrils [[/underlined]] & I saw fresh coon tracks.
The steep canyon slope facing SW is mainly Upper Sonoran, covered with [[red underlined]] live oaks [[/red underlined]] (arizonica mainly) and [[red underlined]] nut pine & Juniper & Circocarpus parvifolius. [[/red underlined]] The mesa tops are largely open grama grass country north of Black Canon, but [[red underlined]] Yellow pines [[/red underlined]] are the principal edge & gulch timber.
Diamond Cr. valley is more open but both slopes are mainly yellow pine. The flat bottoms are beautiful open groves or [[red underlined]] Populus angustifolia [[/red underlined]] & a few [[red underlined]] yellow pine. [[/red underlined]] No body lives here now, but there is an old long house & fenced field of weeds & grass. The bottoms are 40 to 60 rods wide of good mellow ride sand.
Along the sides are low cliffs of conglomerate shelf rocks that show shallow caves & in these are old cliff storage places like the cliff houses but smaller.