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Here is lots of salt grass & a kind of sedge that the horses eat. Frogs - Hylers - are abundant in the spring & keep up a lively peeping. Shells are in the spring too.
A warm morning at camp in Shepherds Cañon. 36[[degree symbol]]. Warm down in valley, Nelson & I worked till late in evening to get our skinning done.

[[underlined]] Jan. 4. [[/underlined]] Sunday - 
A pleasant day, +30[[degree symbol]] in morning. 56[[degree symbol]] at 3 P.M. Clear & just warm enough. The hot spring is +80[[degree symbol]]. & full of frogs.

[[underlined]] Jan. 5. [[/underlined]] Finished stuffing our mammals in forenoon & in afternoon I set 53 traps, Nelson set 43. We set them among the Mesquits north of ford for Dipodomes, Neotomes, mice. I shot 2 small lizzards & shot a Phainipepla.
There are sand heaps along the north side of ford where loose sand has blown up into bunches of mesquit brush & lodged till it has become 8 or 10 feet high. There is a fine creek of fresh water coming out of Halls Canon half a mile north of Hot Spring. We get our drinking water from it as the spring is too salt to be good.