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[[underlined]] April 18 [[/underlined] - Stage came along at 9 and put me at Fontenelle at 12. Shot 2 chipmunks & a lepus baileyi & a prairie dog.  Left Fontenelle at 1 P.M. & reached Opal at sundown.  Roads good but a chilly wind blowing.

Got 3 prairie dogs & killed others that slid down the burrows.

Country alive with sheep, saw numerous large herds and sheep wagons dot the valleys.  The ground is eaten and trampled bare and most of the bushes eaten except sagebrush.  Grass is just beginning to start.  About 10 percent of the sheep were lost during the late storm.  Hay or grain was fed where ever it could be procured.