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[[underlined]] Yakima Valley [[/underlined]]

July 13-16,
Remained at one camp on the river flats a mile north of Mabton, and trapped over the valley for 4 days, getting good series of S. mollis, Tamias pictus, Perognathus, Onychomys, and a few Thomomys clusius.

The valley is sandy except in the flat where the river floods it and keeps it hard & makes the grass grow. The Indian land is rented for hay and all that produces a good crop of grass is fenced. Most of the has has been cut. crews of men are still at work on it. The mosquitos are very numerous along the river & in brushy places, but out by a pond near the edge of the meadow where we camped they did not trouble us.

The Yakima River is wide & deep and clear with a slow current. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] It is 200 or 300 yards wide with cut banks 10 or 15 feet above the water most of the way. The whole flat has been flooded last spring where the water must have been 15 feet higher than now.

[[underlined]] July 17 [[/underlined]] Broke camp & started up the Yakima Valley for N. Yakima. Followed the R.R. part way but had to crook around fields & creeks. Passed Toppenish & camped a mile or two to the west & near the river.

The flat part of the valley is 5 or 6 miles wide between ranges of sagebrush hills. Groves of Populus balsamifera extend along the river, wide grassy hay meadows lie