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[[underlined]] Canis mexicanus [[/underlined]], Saw lots of wolf tracks made last night & night before on the high mesa at head of Houghton Cr. Canyon. Three or four had been along the road together & some were very large. This is ideal country for them.

[[underlined]] Odocoileus himionus [[/underlined]]. Saw one large buck with big horns on the mesa at head of Houghton Cr. Canyon. & a buck & doe at the salt trough where we camped as we rode up. All were in the red coat & the bucks horns were nearly full grown.

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There is no water in this part of the Elk Mts. & they are covered with open and rather scrubby timber of yellow pine & Gambels oak except in the draws where there is a fine stand of big yellow pine. One little bunch of aspens in a cold gulch was the only trace of Canadian. There were few signs of mammals or birds.

The mts., as the whole country, are of lava rock and very stony but of good soil & yield good grass. The peaks to the north of our camp which seem to be the real Elk Mts. are much higher & seem to have Canadian zone timber on the cold slope. A great stretch of high mesa country lies to the west of us & reaches across to the timber of the Mogollons. It must be all above 8000 feet & mainly Transition.