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Eriehaon
1935
Cureka and Samoa
Humboldt County
huckleberry, large yellow lupine, and other shrubs.
Leathery clumps of Pinus contorta. Some gopher
washings found in low growing about sometimes
called, wild cranberry. Soil gray, very sandy.
Made two sets. From sets left at Cureka took
one female; this set are filled in this morning.
June 20
From eight remaining sets at Cureka took
sixty-one female; all taken up; went to Samoa; both
of sets here were filled in; reset these, and
made seven additional sets. One made in open
hole took gopher in 20 minutes. In afternoon
drove south of Samoa; mostly small sand dunes,
no evidence of gophers. In evening took five
gophers; made four more sets here, and three
in field four miles north of Samoa. Mosquitoes the
worst I have ever encountered. Ditched up small
Garter snake near leron colony west of Beatrice in morning.
June 21
Two of three sets four miles north filled in;
traps taken up. Two gophers taken in four sets near
Samoa. Made ten new sets at Samoa. In afternoon
took eight gophers, one set filled in, other untouched,
all taken up. Made four sets in pasture 1/4 mile
north of Lolita. Two farmers between Lolita and Fern-
bridge, who agreed to save any gophers they might take