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[[underlined]] Aug. 4[[/underlined]]. Oklahoma City is a very substantial town of 40000 people, good stores & hotels & asphelted streets. Did some shopping & took train at 9:30 A.M. for Cache. The country is mainly open and noticeably more arid as we go west. The trees are dwarfed and restricted to creek and river bottoms. They are mainly Ulmus crassifolia, Juglans, Populus fremonti, Quercus texana? (Post oak) Negundo, plum & grape. On the wide sandy flats of the Canadian River scattered Cottonwoods & willows are the principal timber, but the other species form strips of dense, low forest along the sides of the valley & in side gulches.

The first Mesquite and Cactus were seen just before reaching Cache.

Prairie dogs were first seen near Fletcher, a 20 acre colony a mile west of station, a few more west of [[Elgin?]] and others at Ft. Sill & Cache. Geomys hills were common in many places from Oklahoma to Cache and two coyotes were seen near Cache.

Transcription Notes:
"Geomys hills" refers to mounds created by pocket gophers. (note submitted by first transcriber)