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[[underlined]] Pryor Creek [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 10 [[/underlined]]
Mosquitos were fearful. Could hardly sleep. Followed up Pryor Creek Valley all day & camped about 3 miles above (south of) the Mission and Sub-Agency. Still about 4 miles to Pryor Gap. 
The valley opens out as we come up it. The hills along the sides become lower & carry no pines & no brush except in gulches. A few Populus angustifolia were seen 8 miles below the Agency and P. monolifera slopes a few miles north of the Agency, only boxelders & willows going up the stream past it.
The Mission & sub agency are in Transition Zone in a grassy valley, well watered & pleasantly located. Indian teepes are all around them, but we saw very few inhabited Indian houses until close to the Agency, below the houses are all closed & the Indians away, probably to escape the mosquitos. Caught only a Sitomys in morning & did not reach camp in time to set traps before dark. 
A hot day but a shower in evening cooled it off.

[[underlined]] July 11 [[/underlined]] Continued up through Pryor Gap to the summit and turned up the first little creek coming from the east. We suppose it to be Sage Creek, followed up it about a mile, as far as we could with wagon & camped. at edge of thick patches of spruce & pine in a wide cañon. Set traps along stream & in pines. According to U.S. Geol. Map the Mission is about 3600 feet. and by the aneroid our camp is 4600, & the divide in Pryors Gap in 4400