Engels 1935. Vicinity of Sacramento Sacramento Co., California, yolo Co., Calif. May 8, 1935 (cont.) country there was about the same we turned + came back. Throughout this entire stretch, from Sacramento west, we saw absolutely no sign of pocket gophers, although we searched diligently. The country is very low + marshy, cut by drainage ditches, dikes + railroads and road-embankments. When it is not cultivated, to beets + other truck-garden stuff, it is covered by an extremely lush + rank vegetation. It is probably throughout too wet, periodically (spring rains + floods), for pocket- gophers. We thought we might find them along the railroad embankments, but there were none we could see. We also followed, for a few miles, a road more or less paralleling U.S. 99W about 1 mi. north – this country was similar in topography, + without pocket gophers that could be seen. May 9, 1935. This morning we set out to look for gophers NW of Sacramento + found workings in + about an old race-track, now used as a pasture for horses, on the east side of U.S./highway 99E, ½ mi. NE. American River, in the outskirts of Sacramento. I made two sets, one of them a double. We then drove south out of Sacramento along U.S. Highway 99 (Upper Stockton road) to look at the traps set out yesterday + checked mileage to these points on the truck's speedometer. At the orchard (12-2 mi. S Sacramento) my single set was undisturbed but there were fresh diggings