Brook 1934 July 17 We went down Cottonwood Creek to ant. Wheeler Pass. Up and down steep grades of Wheeler Pass and then SW to Morgans Ranch, then a section of the hottest and most desolate country I have yet seen at an elevation of 5700 ft. we left the Pinons and at 53:00 ft. we left the sage brush gradually for Atroples and Sarcobatus. The geology of the region was interesting. At Morgans Ranch we were on the East Walker River, we continued north down this river to a point E. Walker R., 5050 ft., 2 mi. NW Morgans Ranch, Mineral Co., Nevada where we again set up camp. The East Walker River afforded the comfort of a bath and the shade of the Cottonwoods gave us relief from a hot sun and wind. But Oh! those ants!! In the evening I ran a line of traps upstream 300 yards and then across an old alfalfa field (now mostly Russian thistle) past a school house and Southwest to the to the top of a small hill with Atroples and Sarcobatus