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Plants from the Swauk, 
X spent the summer of 1913 in the Swauk Valley. This is situated in 
Kititas Co. Washington. Most of my time was in the Valley of Cougar 
Creek. Cougar Creek is a tributary of William’s Creek which joins the 
Swauk at the town of Libert. These plants were collected mainly in 
township 21N. Range 18 ,F. although a few of them came from T.SO R.17.J3. 
The formation is Kocine and consists mainly of Sandstones .Conglomerates 
and whales. The sandstones and conglomerates are above the shales and 
have largely been removed by erosion. A marked characteristic of the 
district is the abundance of dikes, by which the formation is cut .these 
run mostly in an east and west direction. Gold prospecting has been 
done all over the district, and some rich deposits have been found .but 
most of the gold has been taken from the old river beds which lie .bur- 
ied in gravel below the present steams. The general elevation of the 
district is from 2400 to 4200 feet , with Table Mountain rising to the 
height of £"00 feet. As a rule the ridges are sharp with broad tops, 
rising abruptly from deep eanons. There is very little land that 
can be cultivated .but for some years the sheep ranged over it. It now 
forms part of the Wenachee Forest Reserve, and there has been hut little 
grazing upon it for some years past. At the head of Lion Gulch are one 
or two ranches which raise fine crops of timothy. Their average eleva- 
tion is over four thousand feet. The first settlers came in here about 
twenty five jrears ago. The only inhabitants of the district at present 
are at Liberty and Gallagherville .and few al^ng the Swauk and two or 
three families on William’s Creek. The district is about twenty miles 
easterly from the Mt. Stuart Range. The summer temperature is not very 
high, we had frost every month this year. Snow lavs on the ridges and 
in the woods until the first of June , the^ snow in the winter is very 
heavy. August was dry but we had 3howers through July and they began 
again in Sept. Vegitation extends to t’ top of the ridges. 
