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railroad follows down the long, open meadow valley of Red Rhode Creek, between sagebrush slopes of the Mts. On the west it is usually 5 to 10 miles back to the foot of Canadian zone timber while on the other side of the RR. the long SW slope of sagebrush seems to be all Transition to the summit of the ridge and until the foot of the ridges comes down to when the valley is also transition. The meadows & stream banks are canadian lower down than are the dry slopes. Populus angustifolia begins on the creek banks above Crabtree at 6000 feet and extends down the valley all the way to Townsend, where I left the Missouri last, & farther.

At Dillon I got a team and drove down the valley 9 miles on the east side, then across to the west side and back to town, so covered a large part of the valley. There is no trace of Sonoran Zone on the meadow bottoms or irrigated part of the valley. It is only on hot dry slopes and then not a strong trace. A great part of the valley is under cultivation as hay,