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Show 211 they retraced t h e i r steps down Pine Canyon and advanced up White River Valley. Not far from the mouth of the canyon, they surprised five antelope at a spring on the east bench. As one might guess, they named t h i s spring Antelope Spring. It is seen on t o d a y ' s maps as Silver Springs. The water was said to be s u f f i cient to i r r i g a t e about twenty-five a c r e s. As they continued t h e i r northward t r e k , they i n t e r s e c t e d the t r a i l of the main camp and followed i t on t o Willow Springs a few miles away. Here a t a l ly was made of t h e i r mileage. The wagons had t r a v e l e d 260 miles since leaving Parowan, and the pack t r a i n s had covered another 260 miles; but s t i l l they had not found any place t o s e t t l e such as President Young had described. Now Dame decided to continue h i s pack t r a i n expeditions on a l a r g e r scale while the main camp was to l a y by a t Willow Springs for a few days. On tbe morning of the 14th, Dame, Martineau, J. Ward Christian, Ansel Twit-chell, George W. S i r r i n e , Francis Brown, Don Carlos S h i r t s , William Smith, Jesse B. Lewis, and John Topham s e t out again for the White Mountains. The inclusion of Shirts was t o replace Johnson as tbe i n t e r p r e t e r . Johnson l e f t the same morning with a small company t o l o c a t e a stream reported by the Indians one hundred miles t o the south. Each exploring company had a pack mule, a spade 12 for digging for water, and "about a week's r a t i o n s each." As Dame's p a r t y s t a r t e d north, undoubtedly for the Ruby Range, they d i s covered horse t r a c k s heading west across the valley only five miles from camp. Colonel Dame was aware t h a t Bean had l e f t before him, and he must have known it was he who made them. George W. Bean and company were now ranging west out of Cave Valley. He had apparently crossed over Shingle Pass i n t o the White River Valley shortly a f t e r Dame's exploring p a r t y bad descended the canyon the day before. Apparently s k i r t i n g Willow Springs t o tbe north, he was unaware of Colonel Dame's presence in the v a l l e y , and he proceeded west toward a gap between the |