Field notes: Catalogue #404-530, journal, and species accounts, v4484
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Moore 193 / Everett Wells 030 ft R 15 E T 1 N Providence Mt Mohave Desert San Bernardino Co California May 27, 1931 due southeast of his ranch house, and lies in a recess or the north spring slope of the Granite Ints, and that there is a grove of Cottonwoods in the canyon Cotton. There are two or three Cottonwood trees at his house, and the fact that the road at this place, and the spring are marked approximate location and location uncertain respectively accounts for the error of the topographers who probably observed the tree from some triangulation point nearby and assumed it to be the spring. Barnes informs me that there is a permanent spring known as Coyote Well a few miles from Cottonwood Springs, the road to which branches off from the Nels road a short distance below his ranch. Barnes reports finding a young mountain Sheep or Granite Mountain Goat last only been dead a short time. He had no knowledge as to what caused its death but remark that the anterior regions were heavily covered by ticks, and so much so around the head and especially the ears that the passage way to one of the ears was completely clogged up. I have the skull of a sheep that was found a year ago on the west end of the Granite Ints in the proximity of two others. It is a young individual also, and its condition showed that it had