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Show 27 Sali Lake City to Beaver, ( atlas- sheet* Nos. 50 and 59,) via Fillmore, From Salt Lake City To Santaqain . .1 To Mona ToNepbi To Chicken Creek To Scipio To Holilen To Fillmore To Meadow Creek • To Corn Creek To Pine Cr* ek To Indian Creek To Beaver Distance in miles. 71.00 11.50 9.00 13.50 22.30 14.00 9.10 10.80 6.90 22.10 tf. 60 12.20 8.60 t I 1 Raio 91.50 217.60 146.60 135.10 12R. 10 105.00 112.60 1- 27.301 90.30 141.30 76.30 150.40! 67.20 161.20, 56.40 168. 10, 49.50 190.201 27. 40 196.80 20.80 • 209.00, 8.60 ' 217.60 o. 00 U a-? ii 0 C 4920.0 5113.0 6025.0 5992.6 6959.0 6057.8 Remarks. Utah Southern railroad Authority. Thompson. Do. KIlMt. Do Do. Thompson. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. From Chicken Creek good stage- road, crossing Sevier by bridge, 21.25 miles from Chicken Creek. Miles. Shortest line from Beaver to Prescott ( air- line) 256.00 Via mouth of Virgin 429.93 Via month of Paria 446.04 Via Grand Wash and Colorado crossing of 1871 391.39 Conjectural route via Pahroach Springs shortens distance to Prescott by about seventeen miles. Conjectural route, believed to be practicable, from month of Moen- copie to Saiveley's Holes, shortens distance by approximatively fifty- nine miles; making distance from Beaver via month of Paria 1W8.03 miles. No water known to exist between the Colorado Chiquito and Crater Lake. Miles. From Salt Lake City to Prescott, via Utah Sonthern Railroad, to Santaqain, Pan-qnitch, mouth of Paria, and Cascades 705.50 Via Beaver and mouth of Virgin 647.58 Via conjectural lines from Moen- copie via Crater Lake 64tf. 00 It appears that the shortest possible distance in an air- line from Bea ver to Prescott is 256 miles; that via the mouth of the Virgin River, Sacramento Valley, Beale's Springs, & c., ( entirely a wagon- road,) the distance is 429.98 miles. From the same point to Prescott, via the head of the Sevier, the mouth of Paria Creek, Little Colorado River, & c., ( wagon- road except for a short distance in the immediate vicinity of the Little Colorado,) the distance is 446.04 miles. By way of Saint George, Utah, the Grand Wash, Colorado crossing of the expedition of 1871, ( wagon road to the Colorado River and from Truxtou Springs,) the distance is 391.39 miles, which is shortened by a conjectural road via the edges of the Colorado plateau and Pahroach Springs by seventeen miles. The route via the mouth of the Paria and that via the mouth of the Virgin River could, at the present writing, be made available by small bodies of troops moving with wagon - transportation 5 the more easterly one being preferable, principally because of several long marches over sandy ground, with long intervals either destitute or affording an insufficient amount of water at certaioj> oints that occur on the other. By ascending the Little Colorado from a point at which it is reached * by the Mormon wagon- road from the mouth of the Paria, to Sunset crossing, where the regularly- traveled road westward across the San Francisco plateau leaves that stream, it becomes practicable for military commands, say by companies well- equipped and carrying a few days' |