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Lee Arnold
1937
Dear Smith Creek Cave, H.H. Morish, White Pine Co., Nevada.
Itinerary
June sufficient opportunity to identify it positively.
After setting the traps I continued up the canyon for about three miles. About two miles west of camp is a large grove of aspen (cottonwood?) trees. This grove must be at least 15 acres in extent. At this point the road (if one could call it that) ended. From here I followed the main stream up a heavily brushed canyon to the south. I progressed up this branch canyon until the bushes got so thick that I had to climb up on the ridge to make any progress at all. From this vantage point I could see that the canyon continued for quite some distance so turned around and headed for camp. — I failed to mention that on the way up I shot an Ammospermophilus. This mammal was sitting on a rock on the south side of the bottom of the canyon. It was a ♀ and was apparently nursing.
June Yesterday afternoon Johnson and I drove down the Snake Valley to a ranch 1 mile east of Sandy, Utah. The ranch consisted of approx. 50 acres of alfalfa & few fruit trees and about 50 acres of semi-marshland where the surplus water accumulated. We set 9