Field notes, v541
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Journal 35 Borell 1964 Ojo de Guna, Chihuahua, May 22, 5200 ft. Summary of observations Prepared May 17-8/20- April 21 through May 20 Spring is late, cold, windy, dry. Our trailer has been parked the entire time under a clump of 4 cottonwoods, b beside a small pool. The pool, about 25 ft in dia. when full is now down to 16 feet. It is maintained by a spring. The site is ideal for this part of the country. It is on the exact margin between the mesquite-catalaw slope and the Zacaton flats. Our pool ad group of cottonwoods is the last permanent water ad cottonwoods between the zacaton flats and the wide slope of maguist, catalaw ad dry grass land that stretches extends from here to the base of this Buena del Rio, about 6 miles (guess) we are at the south eastern edge of the old town of Ojo de Guna, which now counts d about 20 house ruins; several with standing walls, and one home occupied by Cresencio Gutierrez and his family. Gutierrez has about 30 head of very poor herdsad cows, one Angus bull, 4 mules, 1 horse (strikethrough), 14 chickens, and 12 pigeons. It raises about 5 acres of corn in a