the risk of a break-down by retracing our route down 

 the Plush Grade and attempting the Calderwood Grade 

 by ear. If this latter grade was not possible for the 

 car we would go as far as practicable and finish on foot, 

 toting the necessary food and water for two days. On 

 the return over the same trail to Rock Creek we found 

 antelope most numerous in between Fort Warner and 

 Desert Lake (T. 36 S. R. 26 and 27 E.). Bunches of 

 respectively 5, 3, 2, 4, 4, 2 and two single bucks— 22 

 antelope in traveling two and a half miles. The next 

 six miles from Desert Lake to DuBlois Ranch showed 

 a bunch of three, and five single individuals, a total of 

 30. A man at the DuBlois Ranch said that earlier in 

 the day a 1)and of 22 antelope had ])een feeding nearby 

 and were drifting toward the east. Including these, 

 made a total of 52 which corresponds very closely with 

 our total count of the previous day, 51. This, I believe, 

 includes practically all the antelope at this time in the 

 vicinitv and of Desert Lake, Warner Springs and 

 Upper Warner Creek in Ts. 35 and 36 S., Rs. 26 and 

 27 E. 



September 22 : Left Adel in the car, going north- 

 westerly across the marsh to Warner Lake, past Tom 

 Calderw^ood 's house to Calderwood Hot Springs and 

 Grade (foot of the grade 1.2 miles from Adel). This 

 steep grade appears to be located on the map as part 

 of the Oregon Central Military Road, and has been 

 made possible, though still dangerous for motor 

 vehicles, by the work of Air. Calderwood. After five 

 miles of sharp up and down hill work over a succes- 

 sion of high rim. rocks and grades over a barren sage 

 brush desert covered with rough and broken lava, we 

 reached the Calderwood Ranch. Here we Avere told 

 that about twenty antelope had been feeding all sum- 

 mer but had left about two weeks before. Mr. Calder- 

 wood says there is a trail from his place to the DuBlois 

 Ranch nine to twelve miles to the north. We drove 

 southerl_y about two miles until the broken lava masses 

 became too numerous for us longer to clear tracks for 

 the wheels. We then pushed on afoot about four miles, 

 to the Jacob's Ranch north of Jack's Lake. When in 



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