Tooke, 1935 Itinerary San Joaquin R., 3mi. NE. Vernalis, San Joaquin Co., Cal. Oct. 18, Left Berkeley yesterday, October 17, at 1 P.M. in company with Dave Johnson. At approximately 3:30 P.M. we arrived in Vernalis, which is a small town just north south of the San Joaquin - Stanislaus and is county line, on the road from Tracy to Newman. Vernalis itself is in San Joaquin Co. Inquiring at the general store where "Kincaids Ranch" was located (the locality where R.J. Gnr in 1931 took two Nestors foxes and several brush rabbits), we were told that the ranch had passed into other hands and that the new owner quite likely would not be amenable to any trapping activities. Therefore, we decided to approach the officials of El Solyo Ranch, a large ranch approximately 3mi. due S.E. of Vernalis. a permit to hunt & camp on the "game reserve" which includes all the river bottomlands in this immediately vicinity, was given readily. However, a reconnaissance over the area soon convinced us that trapping would prove to be unprofitable, since most of the land bordering the river had been either