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hardy crops do well but it is close to edge of Canadian zone, as shown by P. murryana & Populus tremuloides along the stream.

The barometer read only a hundred feet higher than at Big Piney, making it approximately 7200 feet.  The ranchers depend mainly on cattle & these have to be fed hay for a large part of the winter.  Still enormous quantities of good wild hay is cut along the valley & cattle look well.  Just back of Pinedale the foothill ridges begin, steep boulder heaped morains with 2 lines of direction, the lower parallel with the valley, the higher plowed out of the canyons at right angles to it.  Back of these the Windriver Mts. rise steep and grand, far above timberline with a broad black belt of timbers along the side the middle slope. Fremont Peak, the highest in the range is a little to the north.

Had a talk with Mr Brandon, secretary of the wolf bounty association & Geo. [[abbr. for George]] Glover, chairman then went over & talked with Zeph Jones.