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[[underlined]] Crow Reservation [[/underlined]]

The slovenly one & two wire fences are half down & the graders horses are pasturing in the Indian meadows. At most of the cabins a small patch of ground has been plowed at some time but is now grown up to mustard, cockle, wild buckwheat, wild sunflowers & some other exhotic weeds. Evidently these patches have been plowed & sowed to grain for the Indians but have not been cultivated after & the fowl seed continues in the soil. 

The valley is full of mosquitos which give us no peace until late in the evening when it gets too cold for them. Probably the mosquitos have driven the Indians out of the valley for the summer, else they have fled before the RR or else have gone to the big fight & dance at the agency.

R.R. grading camps were passed at intervels of 2 to 4 miles all day. The end of the laid track was passed in the morning a mile from our camp. The valley offers an easy & good route for a R.R. & a good road is being built. The soil of the valley is a mixture of gumbo & sand & seems very productive. Every bit of the valley could be watered.

Traveled about 25 miles.

[[underline]] July 3 [[/underline]] Out[[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]] of 93 traps we got only 2 Sitomys & 2 Arvicola. Followed down valley, which does not change much in character to the agency. [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] Camped about a mile from agency