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[[underlined]] To Ashton [[/underlined]]

gravelly flats with much poor soil and waste land.

Populus angustifolia is abundant over this bottomland as also willows, birch, thornapple & Eleagnus. Crops are generally poor & farming likewise.

Thornton to Rexburg - good land again under good cultivation and good homes. Dry farming grain on low mesa to the east.

Corn & potatoes some frosted.

Good land & crops from Rexburg to [[underlined]] Sugar City. [[/underlined]] Fine sugar beets, good alfalfa & grain.

Big Sugar Mill & little town.

[[underlined]] St. Anthony [[/underlined]] - 5000 feet, no signs of frost. Fine grain and alfalfa country. Apple trees loaded with good fruit.
A good town.

[[underlined]] Ashton [[/underlined]] - as far as the train goes, 11:50 A.M. Set gopher traps, caught 2 Thomomys fuscus in edge of town. Very abundant. No chipmunks. A good grain and farming country, most of land under cultivation. Mainly Upper Sonoran but a trace of Balsamorrhiza on north slopes. Timbered hills across the rim 6 miles north. 

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