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the roots which are exported to Burop® and the tf.S. The mountain slope 
San Juan 
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furnishes good pasture and cattle, sheep, and goats are raised* Very 
little limber is taken out as few trees are suitable size. Most of the 
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timber cut is for firewood* She principal object of the little steam 
road to Toluca ms to furnish easier transportation for wood. It was 
quite cool on the mountain during my stay* frost occurred ©very dear 
night. , 
Chihuahua 
Oct. 6, Friday - We left San Juan September 14th and spent one night 
in Toluca together. Mr, Bel son went hack to the City of Mexico on the 
ISth and I followed him the same day, hut on a later train, I had to 
stay in Toluca until evening in order to get some clothes I was having 
md®. I reached the City about 9 p.m. and at 8 p,m. the following day 
we left the city fen* Santa Sosalia Chihuahua, 
They were having a great celebration and a lot of fireworks at the 
Zooalo the evening we left. In honor of Independence Say which is the 
14th, but the celebration lasts several days. When we woke up on the 
morning of the l?th the train was pulling into Celaya. We get breakfast 
at Silao. South of Leon I thought was a goodlocking country for jumping 
rats, bub they may not occur there. I afterwards saw signs of at least 
two species almost all the way up to Santa Rosalia. The first time I 
saw unmistakable signs of them was a few miles north of Lagos. Then I 
saw large and small holes just north of the station of Santa ii&ria, 
north of Lagos. Soon we began to ascend toward Zaoetecas and entered a 
rocky kind of country in which no signs of them, were seen. They appeared 
ntrti jn further on some distance south of the station of Guadelupe after we 
had crossed a lew divide. Before reaching Guadelupe they had again dis- 
appeared. Hear Barrlozabel and Ilapimi large and small jumping rats 
occur. Around Mapimi it is all dry country, the place of a few stores 
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