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Show 314 SIERRA DE SANTIAGO. June 6. I ascended the sierra that I called Sierra de Santiago to the eastnortheast, having traveled a tenant J. C. Ives, under the guidance of the noble Mojave chief Iriteba. A glance at Ives* beautiful map will show it in outline, and we shall be able to fill in many details. Chapters vii and viii, pp. 93- 112, figs. 26- 36, of Ives' admirable Report, may be pleasantly and profitably read in this connection; it still remains one of the best descriptions extant of this region. On p. 8 of App. B Ives gives a tabular itinerary, with distances, etc., of his camps 60- 73; some of these are identical with those of Garc6s. Another notable itinerary to be considered in this connection is the Report of E. F. Beak, 35thCongr., 1st Sess., Ho. Rep. Ex. Doc. No. 124, half- titled " Wagon Road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado River," etc., 8vo, Washington, 1858, pp. 87, map. " Beale's route" is traditional in Arizona; everybody has heard of it, but few know anything accurately about it, and " Beale's springs " ( for which see beyond) is now its most pointed reminder. Mr. Beale came through in Sept. and Oct., 1857, with a motley outfit which included Greeks, Turks, and camels, besides the men and animals more familiarly American, passing on and near the 35th parallel, approximately along the earlier lines of march of Sitgreaves and Whipple; he passed on to Fort Tejon in California, and came back through Arizona in Jan. and Feb., 1858. His report is that of an enthusiastic and energetic explorer, who believed in camels and was confident he had found the best route for a railroad across northern Arizona; his narrative is a lively one, but loose in the joints, and with the serious defect that text and map dp not always agree with each other; it exhibits a profusion of original place- names, very few of which have ever come into use, and on the whole is entirely overshadowed by the better work 6f Sitgreaves, Whipple, and Ives. All the same, the present railroad does run nearer Beale's route than any single one of the other explorers' routes; and Beale almost retraced Garces' trail |