Hooper, 1936 Sulphur, 4042 ft., Humboldt Co., Nev. July 25, For 3½ hrs. yesterday morning drove south to Sulphur, Nev. This "town" is composed of about 15 small houses + shacks - inhabited - if they are- by workers at the sulphur mine near here and by section hands on the Western Pacific Railroad which runs thru here. One store, a depot + an old "hotel" - sans tenants - before we arrived. For $1.00 per day we are renting three rooms in the "hotel." The town lies near the area termed on the U.S.G.S. sheet "Black Rock Desert." Sand here of course, non-driftable type. Plants noted: Sarcobates, Atriplex + Artemesia sp? 21 mi. W + 2 mi. N Lovelock, 4000 ft., Pershing Co., Nev. July 28, Moved camp yesterday. Drove southward to 3 mi. S Vernon, 4250 ft. Vernon is a settlement of about 7 houses - some of which are now inhabited. Collected a horned lizard on rocky soil under a small bush. Spent night here, drove to Lovelock this morning to get onto another road leading to an adobe lake, about 21 mi. W and 2 mi. N. Lovelock. We tried