Journal, v4151
Page 433
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Transcription
General Account. the night and continued intermittently until about noon when it cleared. We hope to have clear weather from now on. Jan.11 I collected th traps this morning. Caught 3 Peromyscus truei. Broke camp and left for Portwill arriving then at 1:00. There was no rain last night but the morning at about 8:00 a hard rain came which lasted until we left for home. I would estimate that this was over a half inch of rain during the time that we were about Whit River the morning. I collected soil samples from the gopher workings about camp. Jan. 13 Canyon Gy zmi E & Orosie zeptis Tulare Co, Calif. Yesterday afternoon we left our home near Portwill to trap in the northern portion of the county. Elms Aldrich is the only one to accompany me. We made camp last yesterday evening in a deserted cabin on the Desie Ranch of M. Vanderlip. This morning I set about 90 mouse traps and 5 rat traps on the hill north of camp. This afternoon I set 22 gopher traps east of camp along the open dry creek.