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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Mill Creek [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] July 28 [[/underlined]] Moved camp about 2 miles up the gulch & camped in a beautiful forest of Pines & firs & cedars near (just above) the Hot springs. Altitude of camp 5000 feet. Set traps & hunted. [[underlined]] July 29. [[/underlines]] Caught mostly Peromyscus, one Neosorex, got a Lagomys. Made up skins & set more traps. [[underlined]] July 30 [[/underlined]] Caught a flying squirrel, a Neosorex, 2 sorex, Thomomys & Peromyscus. Higginson caught a weasel. Broke camp & went down to main road at Morgans, then west over a high ridge & down to Martin Creek - a branch of Battle Creek & camped. Came 6 miles from Morgan. The top of high ridge is mainly Canadian Zone (5500 feet) with the big coned firs & Arctostaphylos nevadensis Most of the transition trees go over the summit. Battle Mountain is in transition zone below 5000 feet.