and clusters of a large caeros on desert, dangered oridity & vegetation, it much resembled the El Paso country of Texas. The building stone of Angora is a white tufa resembling chalk in appearance, most of the buildings are made of it, sometimes it is sprinkled in colors. Along Yuma along the Yuma River the hills are covered by great rough spots of red brown rock among which many cactus and green trees grow but no figurs or animals were seen & only a few birds. Life of any sort is rare here a little above Guiscos Sta. we would [illegible] back forth on a hill crossing alone on track 4 or 5 times and finally going down a short tunnel. Blue lupines were seen on the road bed.