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[[underlined]] Weaverville to Diedrick [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Aug. 9 [[/underlined]] Got a new man & started out rather late.  Crossed a high ridge & came down to Junction on the Trinity R. then followed up Canyon Creek north past the old mining camp of Canyon City & to end of wagon road at Diedrick.  Came about 22 miles.  Barometer read 2500 feet at Diedrick in bottom of deep, narrow gulch.  The bordering ridges are steep & rocky & half bare, covered with chapperal & streaks of timber.  The stream has been mostly turned out into mining ditches, but the old bed is mostly over bare rocks.  From [[strikethrough]] Canyon [[/strikethrough]] Junction to Diedrick [[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] the gulch has been washed out for gold for almost its entire length.  Miners are still at work in many places, some Chinese & some whites.  All is places mining.

Diedrick is a mining camp, with a few little garden patches.

Bought 100 lbs of hay at 2 1/2¢ @ lb. or at the rate of $50 a ton.

Transcription Notes:
Diedrick is probably Dedrick.