Field notes: Catalogue #404-530, journal, and species accounts, v4484
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Moore 1931 Event Well 5035 ft R.B.E T.M.W, Providence Int., Incline Desert San Bernardino Co, California. May 27, 1931. a) Been exposed for a period of two or three years. - Borne reported a possible road to the base of the Providence Mts. from Kelso. A pipe line runs back in the mountains a short distance. Proceeding north along the railroad from Kelso we stopped at Lime after a climb of approximately two thousand feet in eighteen miles. One south of Kelso about three miles, the road from Bombay passes lower a wood cotton through a wide area of sanddunes. The dunes cover an area of approximately five square miles and are composed of extremely fine yellow sand. The sand is piled to a height of about two hundred feet in places and is bare of any vegetation whatever. Around the edges a giant grown of sword grass and desert serbenza occurs, and in the wood cottons through the dunes occasional mosquitoes are found. Trouble was experienced in a few places where sand had blown over and covered the road, and a heavy car rapidly loses traction after proceeding through it for a few feet. Several large lizards, almost the color of the sand were seen, but they were so deapt at concealing themselves that dodging into holes that it was difficult to get a shot at them. In places where the water in the loader wood cotton had cut into the sand could, immovable.