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[[underlined]] July 13 [[/underlined]] - Sunday. The boys stayed at camp writing & getting a few jays & setting traps. I went with Mr. Wade over on the Hackberry Creek about 7 miles east of the ranch - Saw some rough country but did not get anything

[[underlined]] July 14 [[/underlined]] - Left Cary to get Jays & took Donald on a trip down the Hackberry horseback. Got 3 Spermophilus buckleyi & saw 3 more, perfectly typical, got a Sciurus linutus. Came back to camp about 2 P.M. Made up skins & set traps.

The Hackberry is apparently about 700 or 800 feet below camp, a big creek from a spring a mile above where we struck it. The valley widens out a little below with patches of rich soil & beautiful woods of chestnut oak, pecan, & elm hung with big old grapevines. Some of the patches have been cleared & raise good corn & vegetables. Poor little ranches are scattered along the valley & the hills & rocky slopes are eaten bare by goats & loose stock.