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Rounded the end of the double crater peak just at sundown & crossing a low ridge at 7300 feet in the junipers, nut pines & a few ponderosa, descended a long, gradual slope to an old well and cabin and camped long after dark. Found an old prospector, Dr. Young, camped there with his two burros and he showed us the old well where we got nearly a pail full of malodorous water full of live things and dead & got supper but had no water for the horses. Came about 28 miles but most of it over stony roads & at a slow rate. 

Saw lots of prairie dogs and several coyotes and looked for antelope but saw none. The old prospector said he saw a bunch of 5 or 6 on is way across the basin. He also says there are 25 or 30 on the San Augustine plains, south of here. He showed us a fine skin of a silvertip he killed in the Datils a few weeks ago. It is in good fur. 

Aneroid 7000 at camp.