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Saw Log; Mud Tanks; Bakers Butte; Fern Spring; (ienerals 

 Springs; Lake Tanks; and Mormon Lake; in Tonto Basin, at Natural 

 Bridge. Pine Creek; Strawberry Valley; Pine Creek Settlement: 

 Payson ; Tonto Creek ; Canyon Creek ; Cibicu Creek ; Corduroy Creek ; 

 Forestdale; Camp Apache; White and Black rivers; between San 

 Carlos and Coyote Sjirings; Globe City; Wheatfield; INIazatzal Moun- 

 tains, and AVild Rye. In 1885, when accompanying a cavalry com- 

 mand from Fort Verde, Arizona, to Texas, mule deer were noted as 

 follows : One was shot by a member of the Third Cavalry Band near 

 Antelope Station, Yavapai County, Arizona, March 26, 1885; a large 

 herd seen and one shot in the foothills near HalFs ranch, on New 

 Tviver, March 28; several noted as seen between Mountain Spring 

 and Tres Alamos, on San Pedro Eiver, April 8; noted from Steins 

 Pass to Lordsburg, New Mexico, April 15; between Lordsburg and 

 Separ April IG; from Separ to Gage April 17; returning, a herd was 

 seen in cedar-clad foothills near Dragoon Summit, Arizona, May 2; 

 at Bumble Bee and Antelope stations May 18 ; and between Antelope 

 i:nd Hances Cienega May 19, 1885. 



As soon as snow falls in the mountains, the deer begin a gradual 

 descent to tlieir winter ranges in the foothills and valleys. We saw 

 them between San Carlos and Coyote Springs October 19, 1884; at 

 the lower border of the pine zone October 2, 1881; and in the red 

 juniper zone by the end of October. 



Not all of the deer leave the Verde Valley (3,300 feet) in summer, 

 for occasionally they were noted in my diary ; one July 10, Avithin a 

 mile of fort; one -female adult September 21. 



Maj. Thomas El wood Rose saw three mule deer on Live Oak 

 Creek, near the Pecos River, in Tom Green County, Texas, and killed 

 two of them, in March, 1883. In 1893 a hunter named Patrick 

 Keene told me that one winter some years previously a small herd of 

 mule deer appeared near Brackettville, Kinney County, Texas, and 

 that probably all were killed. No others had been seen in that region. 

 In a letter from Dr. Paul Clendennin, dated Fort Davis, Texas, 

 August 9, 1885, mule deer were spoken of as abounding in the moun- 

 tains near Fort Davis, where he intended spending " the first week 

 or ten days of September " of that year in hunting them. On the 

 Mexican Line our first mule deer was killed at a horse ranch in the 

 Sierra Blanca Mountains of southwestern Texas, and from that point 

 to the San Luis Mountains (Monument No. 65) it was found near 

 every station. Several large herds were found in the Potrillo, Camel, 

 Seca, and Aguila mountains, March 19 to April 7, 1892. Some were 

 killed in the mountains of New Mexico, near Mosquito Springs, in 

 April and May, 1892. Others were shot at Dog Spring, New Mexico, 

 at White Water, Chihuahua, and in the San Luis jMountains. West 



