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in abundance on the little rich soiled flats along the creek, and evidently served as indians gardens in prehistoric times.

The potato vines stand 6 inches to a foot high and have white flowers. Grow largest in willow black soiled places and have new potatoes as large as sparrows eggs.

At the base of each vine is a little old ^brown potato from which the plant started. The new tubers are full grown, pure white, and covered with brown specks. They have several eyes but one plant only grows from a tuber. When boiled they have a real potato taste but are rather solid.

Thomomys fulvus are numerous and one caught in the patch had flowers, leaves & the whole tuber stems in its pockets.

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[[underlined]]Aug. 24[[/underlined]]. John did not come back but we leave camp and go where we please. Went up the canyon 3 or 4 miles through narrow part and found it beautiful, cold, narrow, and full of Canadian zone trees. The creek roars and tumbles down it. The road is stony but not very bad. The sides of the canyon are steep and on the north slippy, one to two thousand feet high, back to the main peaks.