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ferns. The hills are mostly of granice rounded masses, with some 
obscure quartzites, and some white quartz veins, The old French 
silver smelter, probably a relic of Maximilian days and which 
made lua Paz a big city is now shut down and dismantled since 
my last visit, but a bank of reverberatores and 8 sets of 5 
stamps each of the mill anda huge tailings dump are left anda 
rouster, all now rusting upin the weather. Triunfo, a city of 
many thousands once, is now a typical scene of desolation. The 
substantially well-built adobe and cement homes are abandoned 
aul roofs falling in. The thriving stores are closed and only an 
excuse for one left, run by a Chinaman. They bave a girls’ 
school of 25 pupils here, dont see where they all come from. The 
cemetery also has gone to decay, Louise Nesbett’s tomb, a Mor- 
mon’s ? is best preserved. Never saw a worse case of desolation, 
exvept Riyolite Nevada, Puarkinsonia aculeata is cult. here, also 
dates and Washingtonia, but not Erythea. Some C. Thurberi, 
one bush of anelongated C. Emoryi, one flat Opuntia and some 
ubortiva, much shrubbery of Tecome stans, Cracca, Prosopis, etc. 
Jatropha with smovth leaves, the horrid J. urens, Antigonum 
sti serss # little annual Verbena, Aplopappus diffusus 8 ft. tall, 
ct. 
in a. 
st night. I met Coda here from Todos ete and had a fine 
visit with him. | He says the people are very hard up-and starving 
and the stock dying from the drought. 
ct. 8. Waited all day for Anderson to show up and then 
went to bed. Was waked wp at la.m.b 
way into m 
Paz, sayin 
I never driuk, but Anderson was 
Will dry ont today and put in 
He clear, but bar. reads 180 ft. which is 
ound. Corn is very high. Very little 
hay for sale. Stock starving on the dry Sakivencthe recent rain 
gel. Seems to. be a good species; 
lobes very short andr ound, about equaling tube, spreading abrupt - 
