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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