Ranch. (In T. 37 and 38 S., E. 25 and 26 E.) We 

 did not have time to revisit the interesting pictographs 

 on the rocks, probably made l)y the old Piute Indians. 

 The abundance of arrow heads indicates that this was 

 a favorite hunting ground for the Indians. On the 

 return in the late afternoon on the Calderwood Grade 

 we saw two buck antelope. Reached Adel 8 P. M. 

 Total antelope seen during the day, forty-one. 



September 24 : Left Adel 8.45 A. M. and reached 

 Klamath Falls, Oregon, 10.15 P. M., including a three- 

 hour stop at Lakeview for repairs to tires badly cut by 

 the lava rocks. 



Description of the Area Recommended for the 

 Oregon-Nevada National Wild Life Reservation. 



The entire region is roughly bounded by the 

 Warner Mountains on the west, the Beatty Butte, like 

 an outlying spur of the Steens Mountains, on the east, 

 Poker Jim Ridge on the northwest, and on the south 

 by the mountains in Washoe County, Nevada. 



Reference to the map shows that this includes the 

 eastern part of Lake County and extends southerly 

 from and including T. 33, Rs. 27 and 28E. sixty-five 

 miles with a width varying from nine miles at the north 

 end to thirty-six miles at the south end. It is located 

 in the northwestern extension of the "Great Basin" 

 region from which no streams discharge to the ocean. 

 Its general character is a high desert, general altitude 

 between 5,000 and 6,000 feet. No official records of 

 precipitation are available, Imt it is possil^le that like 

 other arid regions the annual rainfall varies greatly. 

 It is proba])ly not much different from that at Burns, 

 Oregon, where records indicate as low as 4.12 inches 

 and as high as 18.72 inches annual rainfall; or in the 

 general Harney Basin, where the average rainfall is 

 between ten and fifteen inches, and the mean annual 

 temperature between forty-five degrees and fifty de- 

 grees F. Frosts occur during every month of the year. 

 It may be very hot in summer days but cool at night. 



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