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[[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