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to be carried forward along the main ridge to the 
Datil and then south down Diamond Creek as far 
as our next camp. For there now remained of the 
formidable forest we had attacked in May only a 
block of country to the west, stretching from the 
Datil on the north to McKnight Creek on the south. 
And we planned to work this territory, so far as 
possible, from the canyons where the baseline was 
to run. Our camps would be along the streams, 
which flowed in a generally westerly direction and 
which cut the timbered area for the most part into 
easily accessible strips and wedges. Diamond 
Creek was the northernmost of these main water- 
courses and a first camp site was chosen near the 
trap corral of the Diamond Bar outfit, some four 
miles from the canyon head. 
The journey of the baseline to this point was made 
memorable by an exploit of Wetherby’s which 
boosted that young man’s popularity higher than it 
had ever before been registered by the thermometer 
of camp sentiment. 
The crew was running the line down a narrow ra- 
vine that breaks west from the main range a little 
this side of the forest boundary. It was late after- 
noon, nearly time to knock off work. Conway 
walked fifty yards or more in advance of the others. 
Wetherby, at the moment, was helping Wallace with 
the plane table. 
At a sudden unusual sound in the brush to the 
left, Wallace turned aside to investigate. The next 
