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[[underlined]]Heppner[[/underlined]] [[underline]]June 12[[/underline]] Staid at camp & wrote on reports and tried to find a camp man. Clear & hot. [[underlined]]June 13[[/underlined]] Moved camp to a mile above town & got supplies & did some writing. A clear hot day. [[underlined]]June 14[[/underlined]] Sunday. Did nothing but write & hunt for man. Hot & clear. [[underlined]]June 15[[/underlined]]. Started at 9 AM & climbed steadily up grade for about 4 miles and probably 800 feet altitude. Barometer would not work. Crossed a flat topped ridge and went down another gulch to Ray Creek, about on a level with Heppner. Ate lunch here & then followed up another gulch for several miles & came out again on top of the plateau level. Followed across for 8 or 10 miles and again started down through Buttermilk Canyon to Rock Creek and camped at 5 P.M. Came about 27 miles. Found farms & grainfields all across the plateau top and in bottom of valleys, but the sloping country is rough & lava covered and is pastured or left for range. Saw low, timbered ridges to the east & S. but no other trees till we reached Rock Creek. Here in the canyon bottom are lots of Populus
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Don't think "man" is correct ("tried to find a camp man" and "hunt for man" don't make sense), but can't figure out what he actually wrote.