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The floor of this valley is smooth and over almost its entire area is covered by dense growth of sagebrush, indicating that the soil is of good quality, although there are a few spots where the surface water evidently stands after heavy rains and the vege­tation is very sparse and the soil evidently not of as good character as that of most of the valley* There has been very little effort made to reclaim any of the valley, although in many of the smaller canyons running out of the mountains on either side where there is a spring ox small stream available, settlers have taken up small tracts of land and seem to be reasonably successful in raising hay and cattle* There are only three ranches in this entire area, twenty- five miles in length and from ten to fifteen miles in width, on which any considerable work has been done or any material develop­ment accomplished*-- The first one of these which we visited is owned by a man named Wamboldt and is situated about fifty-five miles almost due north of Fioehe* He has 720 acres of valley land on which there are a large number of springs, he claims sixty—'three in all, from one of which there is a very copious flow of water. It appears in the nature of a basin of irregular shape but which, if it were regular, would probably be 100 feet in diameter, situated in a meadow, and when we visited it yesterday the stream flowing from it was about two feet wide and fully two and one-half feet deep and running very briskly. The other springs are all smaller than this and the flow from them varies from that of this large one to almost nothing in some of the very small ones. He permits all of this water to run to waste, practically, although it sub-irrigates a large area from which he cuts the native grass for hay, and he utilizes a little Mr. E.E. Calvin. Mr.J .R os^b Clark. -2 — August 20th, 1915.