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[[left page blank]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Hail Center [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] May 30. [[/underlined]] Continued straight north from Hail Center through the little town of Running Water and on over the same level, grassy plain with a slight rise all day. No trees, no bushes, only short grass prairie, a few [[windmills?]] & small ranch houses on the edge of the circular disc, enormous pastures fenced in with barbed wire. In the afternoon we passed many ranges with plowed fields & corn, millet, & kaffercorn growing. A few small cottonwoods have been set out around most of the ranges & at some we saw scrubby peach trees. The soil is excellent & with a little more water would make the best of farming land. Grass is good most of the way, cattle are numerous. Passed 3 or 4 prairie dog colonies of a section to several sections in extent. Caught a Geomys castarops & saw lots of thin hills - lots of S. tri. pallidus. Came about 35 miles. Cool & windy.