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[[left page blank]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]]To Prineville[[/underlined]] with good grass and few ranches. Some sheep & a few horse & cattle. Found S. beldingi with S. mollis. [[underlined]]June 24[[/underlined]] Started at 7 and in about [[overwritten]]4[[/overwritten]] 6 miles Hay Creek. Followed up Hay Creek, over a ridge to Willow Creek, then up a ridge to pine timber and down into Crooked River valley to Prineville. Crooked River valley is a broad, dry, sandy, sagebrush valley of the Great Basin type. The hot, dry sand is covered with tracks and runways of jack rabbits, Spermophiles, Perodipus & etc. Some of the valley is irrigated & good crops are raised. The roads are dusty but fairly good. A hot day. Traveled 28 miles. Camped at a pasture 1/2 mile S. of Prineville. [[underlined]]June 25[[/underlined]] Made up a few specimens, wrote some on report & got buckboard fixed & bought supplies. Hot & dry & dusty. [[underlined]]June 26[[/underlined]] Wrote reports & packed specimens. Rained in P.M.