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[[underlined]] Springerville [[/underlined]] Ariz.

[[underlined]] Sept. 9 [[/underlined]]. Continued across mesa west to a creek that runs down to near Springerville & followed down this to the town. Got supplies & visited the Forest Supervisor Warren? & the photographer & trapper, Clay Hunter, Then crossed to west side of the Little Colorado & followed up its valley on mesa about 12 miles to edge of mountain timber & camped after dark. Aneroid read 7500 at Springerville - 500 feet too high - [[insertion]] and 1200 feet higher at camp. [[/insertion]]

The dry flats & south slopes about Springerville are Upper Sonoran zone, but cold slopes down to near the town and the wet bottoms seem to be Transition. Nut pines & both junipers cover the foothills and the valleys are a golden glow of Helianthus annuus, "Helianthella", Crassina grandiflora, Guterrizia [[blank]], Bigelovia canescens & small green, Senecio ^[["trilegula"]], etc. Along the river bottoms is Willows, narrow leaved cottonwoods, etc. There are extensive wet marshes & flat fields of grass or grain.