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Murray
1948
66
Journal
May 16 Triunfo, 1700 feet, Baja California
built place, boasting almost all brick
or stone buildings and many improvements
including water pipes and pavement-
all developed by the company which
operated the mine here. However the
company went broke, and the town
collapsed. Now many of the brick
buildings are in various stages of ruin.
In one such compound mostly fallen
down we found a second story room
intact with all but one wall. The walls
were plaster and the roof wood, supported
by wooden beams a number of which were
double. Between these were cracks of
1/2 to 3/4 inch wide containing bats in
great numbers. Our total catch was
92 Tadarida mexicana and 2 Myotis
velifer, and also 3 Eptesicus fuscus
which appeared from somewhere below.
Also looked in a long mine shaft
but found no bats.
We camped a short distance from town
on the road to San Antonio, under a mesquite
tree and in an arroyo. All around are
rolling hills of rocky soil and covered
with a dry leafless growth of lumbroi,
copal and other thorny bushes.