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Their nearest neighbor is 20 miles away.
They have good buildings & a nice ranch.
The creek breaks out here & runs quite a stream for a little ways. The ranch is just at the edge of the valley & between the last hills. From it I could see away down the valley south for a long way - 50 miles or more - & off over low ranges of bare looking hills to the south & west -
They told us there was water on the road to Soda Springs at 7 miles & again at 14 miles. Decided to make the 14 mile place. Took hay as there was no feed at the spring -
Near the ranch we saw the first Atriplex confertifolia & it soon took rank as a predominant plant on the dry plain along the foot hills. It seems to have a lower range than A. canescens which we met higher up for the first time this year. A. canescens is common along washes, gulches, & in the bottom of the valley. It keeps with Sarcobatus vermiculatus, & Tetradymia canescens. There is a Sarcobatus baileyi, new to me that keeps with Atriplex confertifolia on the dry side of the valley. It is short & spiny, grows in thick bunches about a foot high, the leaves have all fallen off & most of the seeds. It looks brown & dead. Several other small dried-up looking shrubs grow on this bare, dry side part of the valley. 4 miles west of the ranch we come down into a dry valley, sloping up to the south - The bottom is sandy & the principal