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Wednesday June 23
Spent most of the day writing
reports Storms exceptional warm
and dry
Saw a muskrat on the
Creek and shot at him but
not him
Thursday June 24. J. Jordan R. rally
We left early and down
southwest along the Owyhee
and up into the hills bordering
River from which I could
overlook a wide extent of
Country. All within sight is
Pendleton or Charloin. That
passed our recently "Border Cities"
lie almost due south. It appears
to be about 700 feet high.
But I cannot see whether
[illegible]
Tent it has hunters camp.
I will get Bunch to ascertain
man about it when he returns
as no one here knows about it
and it is too far to repay a
special trip at.
We drive back and had lunch
near the crossing "Rome," and
then drove south out of the Canyon
and continued up the valley of the
Jordan. Camping at a ranch 7
miles out from the Owyhees
Friday June 25. To Jordan Valley 1942.
We left rather late as the morning
was rainy and very cold. The road
led eastward over the low hills
bordering the Jordan rally on the
north side. The hills are covered
with lava rock which sometimes
from the road bed. At noon
We passed a bend of the
Jordan which lies close to
the road as a little beyond
joined Cor Creek coming
in from the north. The country
is all sagebrush and grassland