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Show 94 SftCOKKOIBSAKOB OP CACHB VALLEY. The supply- train from Fort Leavenworth, with my provisions, had not arrived at the poet, as I expected, and 1 waff consequently detained until the 6th of October, when, . haying obtained them, I set out on my return. The frank and generous hospitality we received during our stay at the post demands a grateful acknowledgment. . Returning, I was accompanied by Colonel Porter, with a small escort, as far as the crossing of Sear River/ He was; desirous that we should make conjointly a reconnoissfcnce of Cache Valley, to ascertain its fjtness for the location there of a permanent military post. t Following the same route which I had. taken when coming up, we Arrived at Bear River on the evening of the 11th, and encamped. The examination of Cache Valley occupied several days. Crossing ovet the range of low, rounded hfljs through which Bear River has cut a passage, we entered this beautiM and picturesque valley, whjch was then covered with a profusion of rich green grass, and adorned and diversified by numerous clumps of willows, Our attempt to cross it directly'was frustrated by meeting with a ' deep, quiet stream, called the Muddy* which rises in the hills dividing the Southern end of the valley from Ogden's Hole, and winds through the tall grass without banks, until it discharges its waters into Bear River, just before that stream enters the valley of the Salt Lake. We were in consequence driven soW eight miles to Jrhe south, and; effected our crossing where th, e valley is full . of ewampy springs,' affording abundanqe of good sweet ws, ter, and excellent grass. Speckled trout of large, sue abounded in the streams. . After crossing: the, Muddy, we skirted the eastern- side of the valley for thirty- five miles in a northerly direction, crossing . successively Blacksmith's Fork, Logan's Fork, High Fork, Gxos Boifl, and Rush Creek, all tributaries of Bear River, which latter stream traverses the vallfey from the north, until it breaks through the range forming its western boundary % iid enters that of the lake. The streams on the east side take their rise in a heavy range running to the north and constituting the eastern iigiit of the valley, which has an average width of about ten miles. The cations ' Which they form before Jteaving the mountains abound in . timber, consisting principally of cotton- wood, with some maple. They afford desirable facilities for irrigation, presenting at the same time advantageous sites for the erectiofn of mills* Th$ se ravines ( abound in fine timber in quantities sufficient for fuel and building purposes. |