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Dr. Lester F. Ward, and we expected much from the trip. We 
received the information that there were no roads there, there- 
fore we secured three saddle horses, three pack mules and a boy 
to take care of the animals. However, we found that a fairly 
good road had been made to the top of the plateau to a dairy- 
ranch, which was run there during the summer. A part of the 
plateau is now a government forest reserve, but cattle and 
sheep are allowed to be pastured on certain parts, which, of 
course, left us very little to collect. obody, who has not 
seen it with his own eyes, can get an idea of the appearance of 
the land after a herd of from 10,000 to 40,000 sheep have passed 
over it, for scarcely a blade of grass or anything else living is 
left. We had a day of fairly good collecting toward the edge 
of the plateau, but on the other days we secured very little. We 
did not stay as long as we intended, but decided to proceed to 
Fish Lake. We could choose between three ways. The way 
least troublesome was to retrace our steps down into the valley 
of the East Fork of Sevier River, follow this down to the reser- 
voir and then up the Grass Valley to the base of the Fish Lake 
Plateau, but this way meant two extra days of travel. The 
shortest way led north along the edge of the plateau, but there 
was only one place where water could be had; if we should miss 
the little spring at the head of Dry Wash, or find it dry, we should 
have to go without water for two days. The third way was to 
go northeast to Bean or Antelope Spring, from there to Loa, in 
the Rabbit Valley and from there to Fish Lake. We selected 
the route last mentioned and were told to take the right hand 
trails and keep well towards the east. We did this so well that 
we missed Bean Springs, ea east thereof, and had to ride the 
whole day without water. Late in the evening we reached the 
Rabbit Valley, near Thurber, seven miles southeast of Loa, and 
late at night the following day we reached Fish Lake which 
is situated about 10,000 feet above the sea. The collecting 
around the lake and along the brooks running into the same 
was fairly good, that on the Fish Lake Plateau, was fair on 
the east side but very poor on the west side. eep are not 
allowed here, it being a forest reserve, but some herders had 
