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Show ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY. 317 at the Jaguallapais, 4 who had provided much game for our refreshment. These people are in the same tions leave the latitude about the same, but reduce the altitude to about 3000. Garces appears to have gone in the afternoon some six miles or more beyond the spring head of Meadow creek, into the Sacramento valley, thus approaching the present railroad which, having crossed the Colorado between the lower end of the Black mountains and the Needles, follows up Sacramento wash into the valley, on its way to Kingman, etc. As already stated, Beale first made this pass, Oct. 15- 16, 1857; he recrossed it Jan. 24, 1858. He called it John Howell's pass, and the source of Meadow creek he named Murray's spring, after Frank Murray, one of his men ( Rep., pp. 77, 78). 4 Crossing what remained to him of the Sacramento valley, Garc6s finds the Hualapai or Walapai Indians living in the vicinity of present Kingman, seat of Mojave county. He says the rancheria was in an arroyo of running water; I have been there several times, without finding any stream, but that may have been due to season. The watershed is toward the Sacramento valley. This " arroyo" is Railroad pass, originally indicated as such by Whipple in 1854, but first so called and mapped by Ives in March, 1858; the railroad through it later justified the name. It appears to be that called by Beale Engle's pass, Oct 8 » 1857, after Captain Engle, U. S. N.; but Beale's itinerary is confusing, especially oh any attempt to adjust it to his map. It is the main defile through the Cerbat range; or, if this range be considered to end here, it separates the Cerbat range on the north from the Hualpai mountains on the south. It is the best watered place for many miles in any direction. The original and best known aguage hereabouts is Beale's springs, for many years the usual camping place on the main wagon road between Fort Mojave and Fort Whipple, about 6 miles northwest of Kingman, and thus about halfway to Coyote holes, which are |