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NDixon
1949
Journal
Apr. 19. Enroute from Berkeley Hameda Co., to Needles, San Bernardino
Co, Calif. left Berkeley at 5:30 AM accompanying
F.A. Pitelka and W.C. Russell in the Chevrolet panel pick-up
truck. Slightly overcast, increasing as we drove south;
the day remained gray and bleak with little sun
until late afternoon. We drove through Walnut Creek
to Tracy and Modesto and then to Bakersfield, arriving
there at 12:30. After lunch we drove east via
Baistow to Needles, arriving at about 7:15 PM.
Apr 20. Enroute from Needles, San Bernardino Co., Calif. to
San Carlos, Gila Co., Calif. left Needles shortly
after 6:00 AM, driving to Blythe and east to Phoenix by
1:00 PM. After car repairs left at 3:00 arriving at
Globe about 5:00 PM. After short pause we drove
to San Carlos, an Indian settlement and then
climbed upward into the plateau country. We
made camp about 7:00 PM at
Cassadero Spring, 23 mi ENE Globe, 4050 ft, Gila Co., Ariz.
The spring arises just above the point where the road
crosses the stream course; several pipes lead from
the spring. It is in a narrow north-south trending
canyon lined with cottonwood, sycamore, walnut, and
Celtis trees; occasional willow and Prosopis trees
are there and I saw 2 oaks about 75 yrs. upstream
from the spring. The spring gives rise to a brook
which varies from 1-2 feet in width. This camp lies
at the lowermost limit of the pinon-juniper-oak
association. It is on the San Carlos (Apache) Indian