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[[underline]] Pintes [[/underline]]
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[[bracket]] There are some large, but low & gnarled, Cottonwoods along Cottonwood Creek. The creek is not large, but furnished water for a good ranch.

Saw some Pintes, There are about 50 in this valley I am told.

A cold, raw day, hardly thawed all day, 27[[degree symbol]] above 0 in morning, mostly clear - 
Camped at dark -
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[[underline]] Dec. 8. [[underline]] A cold frosty morning. clear -

Turned to the west from Piepers & followed up a sandy wash & over the low spur of the White Mts. that incircles Deep Spring Valley. The summit where we crossed is somewhere about 1500 feet above the valley.

The mountains are rocky, mostly of a soft whitish granite. There are Cedars & Piñon on them in higher places, the pass is only up to lower edge of trees. Artemesia tridentata is the most common shrub. The shorted leaved Artemesia is common. Some plants new to me. Ephedra is abundant.
Snow covers the north slopes from the edge of the valley up is 4 or 5 inches deep in places high up. none in the road to bother. Saw several Tamias leucurus & shot one. Their tracks are all over the snow.

Saw one Deer track & Coyote tracks.