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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] July 15 The boys went to their traps & I took the team & wagon to town & had the tires set & some repairing done. Took till 3 P.M. & I had to attend to it all myself. Next, Dutcher & I took our horses & rode up on the hills S.E. of town & set 34 traps for mice & small things. D. killed an Otocoris & I got a Tamias & a S. mollis. Packed a box of skins in evening. A hot day. " [[Ditto for: July]] 16 Went to traps, but did not get any thing of account except a large kind of Thomomys. Put up a few skins & in P.M. packed a lot of specimens, & sent them by mail. Went to town & bought supplies for a month. A warm day, rained in evening. " [[Ditto for: July]] 17 Packed up & crossed the Snake R. Camped till night about 5 miles W. of R. Hunted & tramped over the lava beds, killed a Tamias & caught a Thomomys. Dutcher killed a Poorwill & Streater killed a long eared Owl, both on the lava. Got a Sage hen.
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