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37_44 Vallecito, San Diego Co. -The old stage house here is in ruins. Only a portion of the roof is intact. The walls were made of salt-grass sod, the layers set in a "plaster" or "mortar" of coarse sand. The sod was cut into regular bricks about 4 x 8 x 16 inches. One of the porch columns has recently fallen and exposed the grass as it grew on top of the sod sixty years since and not at all rotted in this dry climate! This is a very remarkable fact: The grass was not as tough, it breaks more easily than the fresh grass, but it is still fairly strong. The walls are topped by hewn sills on which the round Cottonwood rafters were mortised with wooden pins. Over these rafter[s] was laid a mat of willow poles bound together with rawhide. On this was laid a grass_, then a layer of mud was plastered, and over this a layer of clay. I did not see a nail in the whole structure. See p. 46._ |
37_45 15 Apr. 1920. c. 1100 ft. -A boy vaquero_ who rides into camp this morning says the term Vallecito applies to this whole valley as far as the rocky hill over which the grade is cut, separating Mason Valley (see p. 42). -The following plants are here: Arrow-weed (Pluchea sericea), 4 ft. h. Screw-bean (Prosopis pubescens ) Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora DC.) Heliotropium curassivicum [curassavicum] L. Atriplex lentiformis, -6 to 8 ft. h. Atriplex (no. 8615). This is the common species about Vallecito and thru the valley. It looks to me like A. torreyi but I have no record of that sp. from this region. It is neither in fl. nor with old fruits. [cf. no. 8646 Atriplex canescens Nutt.] Chenopodium murale and album, these only about the horse-trough. Salvia columbariae Bth. Acacia greggii Gray. Populus fremontii (2 trees). Cont. p. 46. _is name is McKane and he works at the Campbell Ranch near the head of Vallecito |
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