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canyon. The auto parties camp here, but the hotel, now owned 

 by W. R. Hearst, is idle. The forest rangers' camp is nearby 

 but otherwise there is no settlement here at present. Sonorella 

 coloradoensis (Stearns) was found at the type locality. Scenery, 

 fine air and the yellow-blooming century-plant (Agave utahensis) 

 were of particular interest. 



Tuba City was our next camp, and it was necessary to return 

 to the San Francisco Mountains, 14 miles from Flagstaff to 

 cross the Painted Desert. This is the fourth time we have 

 passed this range with a peak of 12,794 feet and everlasting 

 snow. Surely Oreohelix is up there in the quaking asps, but 

 no conchologist has made a track so much as on the foothills. 



At Cameron (Tanner) crossing was made over the canyon of 

 the Little Colorado on a suspension bridge built by the govern- 

 ment. There was but a thread of water in the muddy flats 

 one or two hundred feet below. A little scratching here during 

 the luncheon hour did not turn up anything in the rocks or 

 drift. The road was fairly good and the autos hummed along 

 merrily over wide stretches of black lava, pebbled agate, iron 

 marbles and other geological curiosities, and at other stretches, 

 for a change, painted canyon walls and miles of grotesque wind- 

 made statues furnished entertainment. Although delayed four 

 hours in starting we traveled 122 miles and went into camp 

 early that day at Tuba. Purchased from the Mormons, this is 

 now a government city of schools, agency buildings, an agri- 

 cultural experiment station and a hospital. 



Sand is the chief product of Tuba City, but springs are 

 numerous and the fields of grain and the orchards were thrifty. 

 At the boiling spring in our camp a new Pisidium and Physa 

 humerosa interioris, n. subsp. were gathered. Also cases of the 

 case-fly and a fair collection of dragon flies. A large scarlet 

 species was the prize. 



John Lee, of Mountain Meadow memory, was one of the 

 founders of Tuba. Later he established Lee's Ferry on the 

 Colorado, and later again at Mountain Meadow met his Water- 

 loo. On the rocks of Moenkoppi Wash is the village of Moen- 

 koppi. The homes and stores of these ancient cliff-dwellers 

 were closely inspected by the clasg, also their fields of corn, 



