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Show 118 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. green boughs, for you have once more reached a region of g~cen trees. And now almost for the first time since leav1ng the settlem. e. nts of the Missouri River , the way-worn and weary em1grant, together with his animals ca take their ease. Fresh provisions can be procured i~an; quantity, the water of the Carson good for stock ar d . ' l grass 1n most places along the river in the greatest abun-dance. Between Ragtown and Gold Canon there is much heav~, sandy, stony road, with one drive of twenty-six miles Without 'vater, unless you prefce a much IonO'er route follow~ng the windings of the river. You ca~ be gov~ erncd In your movements by the ad vice obtained from traders and settlers along the route . . From Ragtow~ you follow up along or near the river, With good grass In many places, to TWENTY-SIX MILE DESERT ......•... ' .......... 20 ACROSS TilE DES.ERT TO GOLD CANON ........................ · · · · 26 . . . . . . . • • . . . . . • • . . . . . . • . • • . . • . • . . . . . 5 Q~ute a. mining settlement on this canon. ]'rom near thi~ ~oint a road to the right leads to Was hoe Valley. This IS ~ beautiful valley of excellent grass, a fine place to recruit or fatten stock. There is a settlement in Washoe Valley. From Gold Canon to CLEAR CREEK .. . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Y h ................ . ou ave now reached a po1· n t 1· n your J·O Urneyings known world wide as ' CARSON VALLEY. Thl'S I·S one of the largest and most fertile valleys of tWhee st.e. rn Uta" h' 1y t· ng d.I rectly along the eastern base of Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is thirty miles in le~gth from north to south, and from three to ten in 'Vfidhth, and abounding with indigenous grasses and clover o t e finest quality· Tll ei.e are numerous settlers here and much land already brought under cultivation; bu~ • NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. ,1 19 which is no impediment to the emigrant who may wish to recruit any amount of stock, previovs to crossing the mountains. Carson Valley will long remain the favorite feeding ground for the stock of the overland emigrant. The Mormons who once occupied the valley have sold out and left it; the present occupants are courteous, obliging, and hospitable. You follow up the valley to GENOA (oLD MoRMON STATION)... . . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • 7 Here is quite a village, with stores, shops, mills, &c., and is the principal mart of trade for the various settlements, agricultural and mining, now rapidly exte~ding alo~g the eastern base of the Sierras. Genoa, dunng the Winter season, connects with Placerville, El Dorado County, Cal., by direct express across the mountains, semimonthly; and during the summer by tri-weekly stages, over the new wagon road, constructed at the expense of El Dorado and Sacramento Counties, connecting central California with the country to the cast of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From Genoa you follow up the CARY'S MILLS ......... · .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · valley to 9 CARY'S RANCH .....•... · · . · · · · • · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 9 You now pass up Big Canon to I:JYL OPE VALL~~ Y • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • · · · · · · · · · · · · · • · · • 6 From this valley-which is about five miles in length-thre are three routes leading into California ; the more northerly one passes near Lake Bigler, and is the new wagon road route by Johnson's Pass to the City of ~lacerville ElDorado County, and on to Sacramento Clty. The middle route, from south end of Hope Valley, is the old Carson route, now nearly abandoned, and better be entirely. The south route from Hope Valley passes through a portion of Amador County, and on by way of Big Tree Grove, to Murphy's, in Calaveras C?unty, and is the route for all the more southern portion of the State, and a part of the central. |