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[[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.