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[[underline]] Goose Lake Valley [[/underline]]

At the north end of the valley where we camped the soil is mainly gumbo or stony clay and the sagebrush is short & scattered. Traps were set but with little prospect of Sonoran species.

So far as we could see the Warner Mts. seem to be a continuous and unbroken range. No low gaps appear. The higher peaks still bear a good deal of snow.

The Aneroid read [[strikethrough]] 5400 [[/strikethrough]] in Drews Valley, 4900 at middle of Goose Lake Valley [[strikethrough]] east [[/strikethrough]] west of Lake View and 4900 at our camp at [[strikethrough]] Salt [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Mud]] Creek at north end of valley. The lake is 4800 and evidently the aneroid is reading accurately.

A cold day with rain squalls all around and in the mountains & valley.

[[underlined]] June 19 [[/underlined]] The horses retraced this way about 5 miles so we got a late start. Followed up the valley about 5 miles & crossed over a low divide formed by an open, sagebrush covered ridge about a mile wide and came down into an open valley leading down still lower to Abert Lake Valley. [[X-mark at the left margin beside the word "Valley"]] Then followed the creek down through a narrow, crooked gulch 5 or 6 miles to the big valley containing Abert Lake & Chewaucan Marsh.

In passing over the divide between the two large valleys we find nothing to prevent [[strikethrough]] such species as [[/strikethrough]] Perodipus, Perognathus, Lepus idahoensis and other Sonoran species

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X Later learned that this creek is called Crooked Creek