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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

Transcription Notes:
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.