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[[underlined]]Aug.13[[/underlined]]

Set a beaver corral trap by encircling a bunch of cottonwood trees they had been cutting with wire netting and putting a drop gate across the trail [[strikethorugh]] attached to [[/strikethrough]] supported by a [[line]]

[[image - sketch of the corral trap]]

Corral 20 feet across & 3 feet high, stapled to trees & staked to ground at edge.

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[[underlined]]Aug.14[[/underlined]] - No beaver came to the trap last night so we left it set and returned to Shattuck in evening. Mr. Adams is to keep the trap set for a week or two and if it does not work will try a corrall trap across a water runway with entrance doors at both sides. He is anxious to get the beaver if it can be done so as not to scare the others. He has many offers of 50 and 100 dollars a pair for beaver to stock streams with, mainly from ranchmen in the counties west of him.