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[[underlined]] Eureka [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 12 [[/underlined]] Waited till noon & returned to Eureka for telegram but it had not come. Returned to camp & wrote reports & packed specimens.

[[underlined]] June 13 [[/underlined]] Got message & mail in P.M. Finished reports & mailed all up to date and 8 packages of specimens. Too late to break camp when we returned from town.

[[underlined]] June 14 [[/underlined]]
Started early and followed south to head of Simpson Creek, over divide and down Pinto Canyon into Newark Valley, then turned north and followed up the valley along west side. camping early (3 PM) at a big spring.

Aneroid at morning camp 6600, on Summit 7700, bottom end of Pinto Canyon 6600, edge of Sonoran Zone in Newark Valley 6300. Camp 6100, bottom of mud flat probably 50 feet lower.

Newark Valley opens out to the south by two branches that are lost behind mountain points. to the north it ^[[runs]] nearly the whole length of the Diamond Range with a great bare soda flat the whole length of the bottom. The valley is 10 to 15 miles wide, The Diamond range runs along the west side, the south