Field notes, v1522
Page 379
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Pearson 1974 mine Building grid camp. abandoned miners quarters B Parad Road 5.3 mi. N "airport" Bella Union Parad Rd to Panamerican Highway Distances: camp to A = 1.1 miles A to B = 1.4 miles, B to airport = 5.3 mi. airport to center of Bella Union = 4.6 mi. the plant ("mine building alone), stopped at a chacra in Bella Union and talked with an intelligent 20-yr. resident. He said last year was a wet year with great vegetation in the loma - and with a plague of rats at his chacra, where they destroyed crops etc. He said the ones they killed were all males. He thinks they breed off in the loma and invade from there. It is reported from Loma by about 2 miles of absolute desert. It gets irrigation water from the Cerrit valley. He says