86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [March, 
morphic rock. Except at the southern end, there is no mining in | 
the range at present. :; 
A good crest trail is maintained by the Forestry Service, and 
several cabins along it are occupied by forest rangers during the 
dry season. At the time we were there, the range was uninhabited 
except for two men caring for mines in Silver Creek, and several at 
Reed’s ranch on Black Canyon. Deer, bear and wild turkeys are 
abundant. There are no rattlesnakes in the forest zone, though 
occasionally seen up to about 6,000 feet. 
Eastern Foothills of the Black Range-—Returning to Deming from 
Chloride, the limestone ridges about Chloride were found barren of 
shells, although they had been seen there by miners at an earlier 
day. At the Oliver Mine, on Mineral Creek, 4 miles above Chloride, 
Oreohelix pilsbryi was found. A few miles southward, on the north side 
of a limestone mountain at Sam’s Canyon, Holospira cockerelli was 
abundant, and a fewvery old ‘“ bones”’ of Oreohelix metcalfei and cooperi 
were found. Again in a like situation on the Little Palomas Creek, 
Holospira was plentiful, and again at Hermosa. This is a small 
village on the Big Palomas Creek, all that remains of a settlement 
of over 2,000 miners in flush times. Teodoro had seen shells here 
years ago, when employed as superintendent at the Ocean Wave 
Mine, but not even “bones” remain. Across the stream, however, 
and down stream for a mile or more, Oreohelix and Holospira were 
abundant. Hard digging was required to get living shells, as the 
hillside of fine soil and limestone spawls had been completely plowed 
up by herds of goats. The snails found shelter under the roots of 
dead oaks and in undisturbed rock. 
In the foothill region there was extensive mining years ago, with 
consequent destruction of the small wood which grew in favorable 
places. 
Although a sharp lookout was kept, nothing further was found 
on the return trip except a colony of Ashmunella in a slide of igneous 
rock along the wagon road near the mouth of a small creek tributary 
to Las Animas River. All were dead except a few very young ones. 
No topographic map has been published. Our collecting stations 
are therefore plotted (pp. 84 and 85) on the Forest Service Tem- 
porary Base Map of the Gila National Forest.! <A list of the stations 
is given at the end of this article. 
1 Second edition, corrected to January 1, 1916. 
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