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Soon come to a little stream running down the cañon & find a stone fence built across it. Had to climb out & around over a steep hill & down above the little field.
Came to other fields & in all passed 7 of their Indian fields of from one to three acres each. They have fenced from one side of the cañon to the other either with stones or short cedars wired up to posts. The fields are from 6 to 15 rods wide. The soil is mellow but very stony, They raise corn & meldons & tomatos & alfalfa, have some fruite trees & grape vines. Irrigate their fields from the creek. No Indians live in the cañon now, 5 or 6 wickiups seen, all empty. Piles of empty cones of Pinus monophylla scattered around. Horses have been kept here but it seems to be only a summer home. Probably the Indians have gone lower down for the winter, can't find out where they are. Are said to be Shoshones. 
Set my traps up the cañon & around Indian gardens. It got late & so I put my horse in a little field of grass & alfalfa & camped for the night, Had only a saddle blanket & a small lunch, made the lunch do for dinner & supper & saved a piece for breakfast.
Aneroid; at camp at Bennett's Wells, 7:30, 1150; first traps at lower end of cañon, 4110: first spring 5775; camped at field, 7050.    38[[degree symbol]] at 7 A.M.;2:30, 66[[degree symbol]]; 6 P.M., 52[[degree symbol]]

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