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[[underlined]] Cuyama Valley [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Oct. 12, [[/underlined]]
Started early for Grays ranch and followed up the Santa Maria Canyon about 10 miles, then out into a broader valley, the Cuyama.

Continued about 30 miles up this to Cuyama Ranch No. 1. & stopped for the night & set traps.

This big open valley is hot dry, lower Sonoran desert, mainly treeless except a few cottonwoods along the streams. It has 2 or 3 occupied ranches, but mostly belongs to Senator Perkins and is run by Miller & Lux as a cattle range. 

South of the valley the great black range of San Rafael or Sierra Madre del Sur extends continuously and of a general level of 5000 feet. It is covered with dense chapparel except near the top and in gulches on cold slopes when tall pines and yellow leaved maples show.

On the north of the valley a low, bare desert range, the Temblas, or Templas range is bare of timber or brush except near the top where scattered bunches 

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