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12_138 agree with Sargent. Yucca-Tree very abundant in all the valley. Like Mesas, Mohave to Rich to Kramer ("Lodgings at Kramer"). Trees to be seen on one side of track if not on the other. Just beyond Mohave a great treeless stretch of sand devoid of all vegetation, on left-hand side of track. Species may be different from that first seen this morning, but there lies [?] are Yucca arboretum, Joshua Tree, undoubtedly. They start on the mesas, sometimes as far as one can see. They are mostly 10 to 15 feet high, and 1 foot in diameter. |
12_139 One notices one here and there of exceptional size, 20 ft. high, and 15 feet across the crown, the trunk 1 1/2 feet in diameter. The route of the railroad,is, as I understand it, essentially that followed by Fremont when he passed out of the head of the San Joaquin in the glorious spring time with his strange company of soldier, hunters, guides and indians. At Barstow we strike the Mohave River, following across the desert snads from its sources on the northerly slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains. Thence it flows easeterly, disappearing in the burning desert half-way |
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