P. PEARSON 1948 22 Ranch hand named Sonny and another dropped in after supper. according to Sonny (age 25, been here since 1937) there were as many as 20,000 sheep on Stanton's property. Most of them were shot during the war. He, his brother, Stanton, and a friend, shot 600 in one afternoon. They must do it on a big scale because we saw nearly 8000 rounds of .218 Bee ammunition at the Christy Ranch just setting out on the table in the abandoned house (= #640). They shipped off the cattle last winter on account of drought - just before the rains finally came. Sonny says that in the vicinity there is another kind of boar than Corythornis - bigger and darker [Entozymus?]. Also, a skunk-sized animal that smells as bad as or worse than a skunk but pale brown. He says no rats, lots of "field mice" around the buildings. Also ferl cats. They hunt mice at night with dogs & killed one soon tonight, a boar and 2 young got away. Days Indians lived on the island, and we have found several human skeletons in the shell heap at the north of the "river". Left 3 Are more skunks in the Trefolios. Spent the morning stiring yesterday's lots, skunk in the p.m., and getting ready to go up to the pine forest for the night to set out a line of traps there. The trees cover one whole side of a ridge (north face) just over the divide from the main road to the airport. mostly 5" to 1' in diameter, but lots of seedlings. Floor mostly open - but a few shrubs scattered through (mostly cusicoons). Manzanita in bloom and in fruit around th