and run in all directions. None of them are marked. One picks a road that runs in the general direction he wishes to go. The rise in Birch Creek Valley is very gradual and after the area of the sinks is left, the soil becomes exceedingly gravelly, such as that found in the vicinity where the Blackfoot-Arco highway crosses Big Lost River. Kauffman, Clark Co., Idaho. June 27. Kauffman - once a post office - is now nothing more than a small store on the bank of Birch Creek, about three miles down stream from "the narrows" and about 13 miles S of Nicholia). Mail for this area is sent either to Winsper or to Reno. Mr. Baer, proprietor of the store, gets his mail via Winsper. Birch Creek, like both Lost Rivers, is diverted entirely to the fields, the last water going to the Reno Ranch, about 18 miles down the creek from here. At Kauffman the creek is about 15 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep. H.