Field notes, v1508
Page 43
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North 12 (copy) epn 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