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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined in red]]Aug. 12.[[/underlined]] Drove out to Mr. W. F. Adams' place at [[underlined]]Ivanhoe Lake [[/underlined]], 5 miles west of Shattuck and found a delightful place to stay. The beaver have dammed up Ivanhoe Creek and made a long narrow lake that is full of bass. The river flats are covered in places with fine old cottonwoods and below the lake with a grove of young cottonwoods & willows. - Wolf river is a wide bottomed sandy stream that spreads a little water over a great deal of sand. The valley is sandy and ridged by water wash and wind drifts. The prairie rim is a gypsum escarpment and back of this is open plains covered with fine grass. The country is all taken up and farms are scattered over it. A small part of it is cultivated and good crops are raised this year. There has been too much rain and much grain spoiled in the shock