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[[underlined]] Camp Creek [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 1 [[/underlined]]
Instead of returning down the mountain the way we came up we climbed still higher & crossed the range & came down the south slope to [[underlined]] Camp Creek [[/underlined]]. 

Learned that there were good fossils in the clay beds near Camp Creek & so camped for the night & dug bones in the afternoon.

The grade is easy up both sides of the Mts.  The south slope is covered with timber for several miles down & there are many little springs & creeks. Grass & flowers make the open woods pretty & attractive. Deer tracks were seen in the trails. At camp the aneroid read 4600, on top of the range 5400 and at our camp [[strikethrough]] on Co [[/strikethrough]] at the fossil beds 4250.  A few Sonoran plants appear in Camp Creek Valley.  Grayia, Sarcobotus, a small amount of Oryzopsis. Sagebrush predominates. Some big marshes, not much water.

On the west side of Camp Creek Valley stands a high, flat topped butte with bare sides. To the S.E. of it is a lower, round topped knoll & still beyond this another. We went up a gulch between these two & at the head of it up the bank to our right found a fine fossil skeleton of some mammal. The skull resembled in a general way the skull of a bear & was about as big as a black bears skull. We took out all that we could find of this skeleton & picked up loose bones. Pieces of bones of mammals are scattered all down the gulch. The fossils are bedded in

Transcription Notes:
"Grayia"=siltbush, "Sarcobotus"=greasewood, "Oryzopsis"=ricegrass.