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Dec. 28, 1958 have been possible to take wagon
over country 3 miles east of Mt. Spring
with any vestige of ease; so that
it is my opinion that the wagon
road ran through the canyon that
Mt. Springs join and that the lowest
water, at eastern base of the coast
range, is near near the east end
of the canyon and in the week dry
when we saw it, that is at the bottom
of the canyon. This would place the
type locality of Peromyscus crinitus
stephensi stephensi NE of Mt.
Springs and also I think that it
would be more than 3 miles from
Mt. Springs. This is to be investigated
when we return to Berkeley.
In our search for possible wagon road
we finally wound up sometime near
the Petrified forest, south and a little
west of Coyote Well, Imperial Co., Calif.,
and we think in Mexico as we
passed a sign that warned people
entering the United States to report
to customs officials. We went a mile
or more passed this sign which was
on a road supposedly to the
Petrified forest, along the east base
of the Coast ranges. We stopped