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37_40 Warner Ranch, San Diego Co. has just presented me a copy of your Trees of California. How many oaks have we here. My, they are a mix-up." Colonel Fletcher is the Highway Commission man who is putting the fine roads thru the back country. All thru this back country we have traveled fine roads, and a road is now being graded from Warners Ranch thru San Felipe Valley and out into the desert by Sentenac Canon. The grading has practically reached San Felipe Valley. -H.A. Dutton says: "A. J. McClatchie taught in the grammar grades in Elsinore. He was very long-legged and since he tried to keep step with his wife who was very sort-legged the effect in Elsinore streets was rather funny and we kids called them Prancing McClatchies. He had a local reputation as a botanist and was certainly devoted to botany. Both he and his wife were interested and as sure as Saturday came they were off to the fields and canons." |
37_41 3000 ft. San Felipe Valley, 14 Apr. 1920. -We run along the base of the hills thru fine Quercus agrifolia trees and finally enter southerly thru a long but relatively narrow break in the range San Felipe Valley. Its valley floor is open but brush covered. We go on nearly to the mouth of Santenac [Sentenac] Canon, a sharp cut in the mts. by which San Felipe Creek runs out into the desert. San Felipe Creek is a small but rapid stream. I can jump across it; and yet it required some care to get the car across it on account of sand. After we crossed we ran, as said, nearly to the mouth of Santenac Canon, --we could see its mouth one mile away--and then turned south-westerly, still in San Felipe Valley. The Thistle Sage (Salvia carduacea) is more abundant here than I have have [sic] seen it elsewhere, making spots of blue color 8 to 40 feet square and continuing for many miles. There are a half-dozen new settlers in the lower part of the valley. |
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