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Show 234 southwestern Utah. It appears that Bean took the logical route toward Beaver City, finding Wah Wah Springs along the way. His trail was basically the same as Utah Highway 21 from the southern end of Snake Valley to Beaver City. Crossing the Wah Wah Range, the company found themselves in Wah Wah Valley, another bleak expanse of open desert. To the north lay the Wah Wah Valley Hard Pan, an old lake bed clearly visible from the elevated points along their trail. Twelve miles across this valley, they rounded the southern terminus of the San Francisco Mountains by traversing a low, cedar-covered divide. Here, on the eastern foothils of the San Francisco Range, they were very near the future site of the rich Frisco mining camp (now a ghost town). Descending from these hills, they marched out onto the Escalante Desert and struck the lower Beaver River sixteen miles below the canyon where the river makes its northern bend. This would place the company very near the present-day city of Milford, strengthening the supposition that that the company was following the eventual route of Utah Highway 21. The company found the lower Beaver Valley to contain "a great amount of good farming land" with "with grass and wood in abundance." The Beaver men followed the river downstream past the site of present-day Minersville to Beaver City where they arrived on the last day of May. While Bean did not report this last desert crossing as unusually difficult, he did mention that the company traveled for distances of fifty miles without finding water.? Five days after arriving at Beaver, George W. Bean was at church headquarters in Provo to make his report to Brigham Young. Bean received his interview with the prophet on June 7. Recounting the history of his travels, he described the country in general terms with few exceptions. The great cave had made an obvious impression on him. Bean portrayed his cave in great detail. He claimed since leaving Provo two and one half months ago, he had "travelled about eight hundred miles in a country never before trod by white men, so far as we have any |