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[[underline]] Dec. 7 [[/underline]], Left Dyer's ranch & passed Fish Lake about 2 miles from there. The lake is simply a big spring about 100 feet across. They say there is no bottom to it. It is full of fish. The water is warm & steaming as we passed in the cold morning.
Crossed to the west side of the valley near McAfee's place, the on up the valley to Pieper's on Cottonwood Creek, California & camped here. Came 22 miles. Are near the south side of Fish Lake Valley. It is about 45 miles long by 8 or 10 miles wide. Several small streams come down from the White Mts. on the west side. There are 9 ranches in the valley, mostly good large ones. Stock & hay are the products.

Shepherdia argentia is common along the middle of the valley between Dyers & McAfees. also willows. Atriplex canescens & confertifolia & Sarcobates (2 species) are the principal plants of the valley, Artemesia tridentata comes down into the valley on the west side to McAfee's place & again at Piepers. Erotia lanata is abundant along the dry sandy side of the valley from McAfees to where we camp. The Cylindropuntia begins near the California line & is common. Saw the first flat Opuntia with short spines in the same place. - like O. Basilaris.