1892 
is the main crop, although corn, wheat, and beans are also grown. 
T- «. •«. ' 
La Parada 
San Luis 
& Vic. 
San Luis is situated in a K. and S. valley from 10 to 20 miles 
across extending almost across the state. In its early history, it 
was the city of mining wealth, but the ancient mines have been aband¬ 
oned so long that they have caved in and are almost forgotten. 
Another trip was about 15 miles south of the city and to the R.R. 
station of Jesus Maria and thence west into the heart of the San Luis 
s 
Pot os i Mountains that extend H and S, west of the oity. About Jesus 
Maria is the San Luis Valley where Perognathus. Dipodomys. Perodious. 
and other desert mammals and birds occur numerously and with almost 
the same vegetation as at La Parada. 
The ittountalns present a bare, rocky front to the valley, but when 
they are penetrated and one rises from about 6000 feet in the valley 
to 7500 or 8000 feet in the mountains, a striking change occurs in 
the vegetation as well as animal-life. 
(See Report to Department of Agriculture), 
A race of Car incus vtrg. was found there living among the oaks on 
the highest part of the range. The first morning I was in the hills 
I found two fine bucks standing on a hillside above me and dropped one 
where he stood and then fired three shots at the other as he dashed 
away without touching him, and suddenly found my magazine empty by an 
unfortunate chance, I then mounted my mule and rode up toward the one 
I had shot. As I came close to him, he made several violent efforts 
and finally staggered to his feet and moved away at a slow trot showing 
a bullet hole in his shoulder just below the heart. % mule refused to 
get out of a slow walk and so I was forced to see my prize vanish be¬ 
fore my eyes and was unable to trail him later on when I had gone to 
©amp and secured more cartridges. A few days later I found a couple 
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