that mark the United States-AIexico houndary line, which crosses 

 Tecate Mountain. 



"The summit is crescent shaped, the two horns formiiif^ 

 ridges running southeasterly and southwesterly from the main 

 summit, with (|uite a deep gulch or canon l)etween. Monument 

 247 is about half a mile west of No. 246 ; each is about 3400 feet 

 altitude, and the main summit is three or four hundred feet 

 higher. I left my horse at Xo. 246 and went directly across the 

 canon to No. 247, returning by the same route. I saw no 

 cypress this trip. ( )n the return trip several weeks later the 

 inspector decided to remain with the horses at No. 246. 1 left 

 my field glasses with him so he could ins]Kct my work. I de- 

 cided to try going around the ridge over the main summit. ( )n 

 the crest or rather on a gentle slope immediately north of the 

 crest I passed through the cypress grove. My memory of them 

 is not very clear, but I am sure they were large old trees — not 

 erect, but, as might be expected on a wind-swept summit, 

 spreading, low-branched and gnarled. I feel sure that some 

 were two feet in diauTeter of trunk near the ground. The grove 

 is on a sort of narrow flat, as I remember it, and i)robabl\- can- 

 not be seen a quarter of a mile away in any direction, as the 

 mountain drops otT rather stee])ly. It is possible of course that 

 the fire may have extended to the summit and burned all the 

 trees. In returning from Xo. 247 to Xo. 246, I went directly 

 across the canon as I found the l)rush art.und by the crest very 

 thick and difificult. 



"The most practical wa_\' now to get to the summit would be 

 to go to Tecate by rail and then follow near the line of the 

 monuments to the summit. Probably the old trail could yet be 

 found. It is a good day's work to go to the summit and back. 

 There is no water on the mountain." 



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