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A man that got on the train at Green River said Prairie Dogs were common all along in the valleys. Saw a Musk Rat swimming in a ford close to R.R. between Grand Junction and Debuque. 
There is a group of high, isolated mountains about 20 miles (I guess) about S.S.W. of [[strikethrough]] Green River Station [[/strikethrough]] Cisco. Seem to be in the fork of the Green & Grand Rivers. It is a small group of peaks like San Francisco Mts. Should think they were 11000 feet high, are covered with timber and the upper part with snow. Some patches of old heavy snow on N.E. slopes. The country about their base is low - probably 4100 feet is the highest land that connects them with other mountains, and this is desert. They ought to yield some good new species. Would love to be worked with a fast train. Could be got at from Cisco or Green River, Price or Sunnyside are the nearest towns where one could outfit. They might be got at by boat down Grand River from Grand Junction. If so it would be the best plan.
We strike Grand River at West Water which is just a station. Follow the river most of the way till dark. There is now and the a ranch along the bottoms, some cottonwoods, and on the hills junipers.

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