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owned by Messrs. Van Buren and Flanigan were grazing. The 

 hills were covered with good forage plants, and all the sheepmen 

 were glad to point out those they considered most valuable. In 

 this interesting region the party spent three of the busiest and 

 most profitable weeks of the summer's work. Leaving Webber 

 Lake, they went next to Lincoln Valley by a roundabout way 

 over the mountains. The herders whom they met on these fertile 

 ranges gave them much information of the highest importance. 



'After a brief stay in Lincoln Valley the botanical outfit was 

 guided by P. I,. Flanigan's herders through the mountains to 

 Soda Springs Station on the Southern Pacific Railroad. As Soda 

 Springs Station is an important shipping point for sheep, the 

 region surrounding it is almost barren of all forage plants. On 

 this account the party left at once for Summit Soda Springs, on 

 the American River. For several days they collected the more 

 valuable plants of this region; then proceeded by way of the wagon 

 road to Talbot's home camp, on the Middle Fork of the same 

 river. Here, through the assistance of Mr. Talbot, they gained a 

 great deal of useful information; then, after collecting and photo- 

 graphing the best plants and grasses, they proceeded back through 

 the mountains to Reno, and so brought the summer's work to 

 an end. 



Now, it may be interesting to other botanists perhaps even 

 to the sheepmen to know exactly how this work was done, 

 what the outfit was like, and how the plants were collected and 

 photographed. We therefore introduce at this point the following 

 description of the outfit and apparatus: 



The general camp equipment of horses, mules and pack bags 

 was the usual sheepherder's outfit, and was furnished by P. L. 

 Flanigan. All the food grub is a more descriptive term was 

 carried in little canvas sacks. The staple foods were flour, rice, 

 macaroni, beans, potatoes, onions, canned tomatoes, bacon, lard, 

 sugar, tea and coffee and syrup. By way of luxuries the greasy 

 pack bags held a good supply of raisins and dried apricots and 

 peaches, with some papers of mush and of corn starch, and a can 

 of chocolate. The sheepmen kept the party supplied with young 

 lamb, and a fly rod well handled kept the camp cook busy frying 

 little trout Eastern brook trout, some of them, the others natives 



