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Orr 1931
San Antonio, 5406 ft., Age Co., Tex.
$50
Sept. 15, 1931
Packed up and left camp 5 miles south of Millett at 8:00 A.M. went south down through the Big Smoky Valley to San Antonio, arriving there about 10:30 A.M.
The farm at about ΒΌ mi. W of the old town site is owned by a Mr. Rainey. Rainey raises coyotes for fur. Keep them in a steel wired pen with houses in the back for shelter. The owner claimed that he lost most of them this summer in account of the heat. Some, he said, never became tame; others tamed quite easily. One adult did not seem to mind the intrusion of strangers.
We put out 16 gopher sets this afternoon. Came across one mound that contained dried grass and feces, where the animal evidently had cleaned out its nest. Mounds were down in small elevations around swampy country, or up on dry ground where only wire grass grew, and out in brush country covered with Buffalo Brush and Lycopodium.
Several hours after the traps were put out Hall and myself went out and looked at the 5 nearest camps and set out last. Two sets contained gophers, and a third was sprung with a