a single dead Planorbis bicarinatus and one poor valve of a Pisidium ) and now (11:30) have everything ready to load on the wagon as soon as it arrives. We will probably feed the horses, eat a hasty lunch, and start. I find we have lost my box containing fine dissecting, egg blowing and other instruments, fossils and mollusk catalogue, mollusk boxes etc. a serious loss. (Found later). We left Greeley at 2:30, changing our route for a longer trip. Drove through Eaton to Ault , arriving at latter place at 7 p.m.. Had a cold piercing gale all afternoon and were chilled with our slickers on. Camped at edge of town.
Wednesday June 20, 1906
Left Ault at 7:50 going north. Intended to drive past Boyd’s Big Springs , but missed the ranch. Drove through another ranch where there were water holes then on to the NE for Eastman’s Lake . Roads generally