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[[underlined]] Wellsville to 

July 21 [[/underlined]]
Cache Valley is 8 or 10 miles wide at this point. It appears to be a very long valley, extending out of sight both ways. It is well supplied with water, Little Bear River running through it and numerous side side streams coming down from the canons.
Most of the valley is cultivated. Houses & towns are numerous. It is the best valley I have seen in Utah.
Baring to the east we crossed the valley and passing through Hyrum we struck into Blacksmiths Fork cañon and followed up it about 8 or 10 miles and camped.
Found a fairly good road and easy grade
The cañon is narrow and the sides high so there is little fertile land in it. 2 or 3 little ranches. A good sized stream comes down it, some 40 feet wide and 2 feet deep and very rapid.  The mts. along each side are not very high: Sheep have eaten off most of the grass. Douglas spruce coveres the upper slopes and comes down into the cañon in places. Juniper and Circocarpus and a Cowania or Purshia are common. Betula occidenlale & Populus angustifolia and Willows, Alnus, Amelanchier, Crotagus.