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[[underlined]] Little Missouri to Little Powder R. [[/underlined]]

with pine timber in strips. A beautiful place with splendid grass. Not  much stock & only one poor ranch seen. The divide registered 4000 feet The Belle Fourche River 3300, and the Little Mo. R. 3400. On the divide we met for the first time since leaving Newcastle Artemisia tridentata & when within 50 feet of the bottom of Little Mo. R. we struck Sarcobatus for the first time.

At the river I found some Rumex venosus which is the first seen since leaving the bottom of Cheyenne Valley at Smithville. I had considered it good Sonoran & still think it is.

The Little Mo. is a small creek almost dry in places but with lots of deep pools that have been dammed by beaver. Trees have been cut all [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] along the creek by beaver but none fresher than nearly a year ago. Began to rain soon after camping & all is gumbo.

We have out 86 traps.

[[underlined]] June, 16, [[/underlined]] Did not rain much at camp but rained hard southeast of us. At daylight the river had risen about 3 feet & before we left camp it had risen 2 feet more & was a rushing torrent of stinking mud & filth. The horses were on the other side & Dutcher had a line of traps also on the east side. He had stepped over a tiny stream to set them but had to swim across to get his traps & horses & the horses had to swim back. He lost 5 trap set along the bank of the stream & I lost 2. We caught only 1 Thomomys & a lot of Sitomys. Broke camp about 8 & struck west over the ridges on an old dim road.