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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