You may want to wear disposable gloves, or disinfect the container and what you handle with hand sanitizer. Remember - you are protecting yourself and follow-on cachers by doing this.
This is BLM-managed public land (Las Cruces Field Office). Lots of good desert plant food and game resources here.
Doesn't look like much, does it? But if you're Apache, this place is loaded and good nearby springs too. This arroyo is named Canyon Rancheria, rancherias being the Spanish name for Apache villages. So somewhere along this drainage is an historical Apache village site.
Jefe Cadete (also known as Cadette - "Volunteer," in Apache, Gian-na-tah - "AlwaysReady." Also known as Zhee-es-not-son, Zhee Ah Nat Tsa): a son and successor of Barranquito, after Santana he was the most prominent and powerful chief of the Sierra Blanca Mescalero Apache band, was more diplomatic than Santana and was a spokesman for the northern Mescalero bands. After the outbreak from Bosque Redondo on November 3, 1863, he had fled with his band toward the Staked Plains, trading stolen cattle and horses from Mexico directly or via the Comanchero to Comanche. He was murdered in 1872 while on a peace mission and returning from Tularosa.
Jefe Roman Grande: a son and successor of Barranquito, serving as chief of a local group of the Sierra Blanca Mescalero Apache band. Less important than Santana and Cadete, he followed the lead of his brother Santana; died during an epidemic in 1885.