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Reached the ranch at 4 P.M. Found it a dry, treeless region characterized by sagebrush & alkali dust surroundings. The Artemisia tridentata is all over the valley & along the old dry channel is often. 8 or 10 feet high & 6 inches in diameter near the ground. The soil is good and 100 sqare miles could be irrigated if there was enough water in the creek. On starting from our camp on Birch Creek 10 miles S. of Nicholia the barometer read at 8 A.M. 6525 feet & 23.35 inches. At Richard's ranch at 6 P.M. 5550 feet ^[[insertion]] 24.25 in. [[/insertion]], and at 8 P.M. 5500 feet, the aneroid being just as received from Washington. 
Set 20 traps around the ranch & in sagebrush. 
A clear, warm, dusty day.

Aug. 6 Found 11 Hesperomys l. sonoriensis in my traps & nothing else. 
Went down to & across the sink of Big Last R. & Birch Creek. It is simply a big dry basin a mile wide enclosed most of the way around by a bank 10 to 30 feet high. It is covered with Sagebrush & desert plants & a little grass, is slightly more fertile than the rest of the desert.

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reviewed -@meg_shuler