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Show 48 but for given reasons, our search vva.s ble camping place selected, animals fruitless, until finding a notice by the cared for, then:.commenced the getting side of the road, directing all travelers of our evening's repast; some carrying to turn off from the road to the right water fron1 the spring or brook, others some distance, where we found a spring busily employed around the gipsy fireof good water an1ong a clun1p of bush- place, baking, boiling, frying and chates, and feed of a superior quality than ting, all going on with a sort of geotnetInuch \Ve have had. Whoever it was rical precision, and keepil1g tin1e to the that put up these directions where decrees of keen appetites. water was to be had, is deserving of our C 102 S 27 Tl t .r • • AMP , EPT. :- 1e COUll ry most heartfelt thanks 10r theu ltniY1an1ty. h' h d t d · f We were overtaken to-d ay b y some of o.v er w 1c we .p asse o- ay Js o very th t 1 d 1 ft · tl · t sin0e par y we 1a e 1n 1e n11nes a aular formation. 1\Iounds regularly B eaver l-ie ad . T} 1ey b n.n g u,, 1. scourag- formed of .s ma.l l stones . are scattere.d 1· ng report s of th e In·n n· ng t l1 e r e , a 1s 0 of over the .e nt1re surface, -vv1thout a part.i . . n1ore I n dI. an t rou bl es ; tl1 e y 1l u..... v e nlade ..... cle of soil over then1. The stones a1e • (.II descent into Deer Lodge, running off all perforated Inuch as a . sponge, and yet of the s t oc k~ f.r on1 tl1 ere. W e do n ot they are ha1·d as grnrnte, and sm.n e. of wish to tloubt the statmnent, but by thenl bo~e the apl?earancc of hav1ng most of the con1pany the report needs belenl su bJectted· to lndt~nse hebalt. k TJle fi · · · · . w 10 c coun ry aroun IS novv ac ~ , 10r con rnw.t1on, as 1t IS g1vcn us hearsay. fi h 1 t 1 d ·t C d On an·iving in can1p late n.s it '-"'lLS • one n·e as a e Y p~sse over I • rosse of the con1pany was Hlissing, and had a sn1all creek th1~ forenoon, deel? do~n evidently becan1e bevvildercd ainong the almongd ledgles ofTlhrregulatrh· and fantastl·dlc numc1. 0 1.1s tt .a 1·1 s t 11 at t1 .a vm .s c t 11 e coun- s 1dap e roc (S. e \vea er vvas co , 1 · d bl ll d · Th 1 11 ll d d an 1~avy win s ew a ay Increas-try. e weat 1er -vvas co < n. . ay, an . t t Th . d 1 the sky cloudy. This evening it is Ingd a . sui:t-se · e 1 oda was da. onlg rainin an cncui ous one an excce 1ng y g. . . rough. Towards night passed Si1-kat- SEPT. 22 :-Re1na1ned In can1p to-day kwa, lake a very pretty sheet of water, to rest the stock; as we~l as to look up but inaccessable on account of its perour los~ compan1on. 'I hrec 1nen start- pendicular banks. Camped in a valley ed out 1n the. search, l>nt had been gone by a spring of excellent water; grass is but a short t n11e, \vheu the absent one poor and difficult to get. appeared. lie had taken a pack trail · which he thought intercepted the \vag- CAMP 103, SuNDAY, SEP'l'. 28 :-Travon road at a point vvherc he cou 1cl n1eet c1ed do\vn the valley in which -vve had us. The road being so 11111ch longer ca1nped until noon, when \VC crossed a than the trail that at can1ping ti1ne he creek, the outlet of the lake, passing was ten n1iles in advance. He renw,ined over a country sin1ilar in n1ost rcso~ t over nig~t; sleeping by the road- pects to that over which we t n1ve1cq s1de and getting thoroughly drenched yesterday. This afternoon, by -vvay of by a cold rain he did not consider very variety, vve passed through valleys, over agreeable. It -vvas late before the scouts ledges of rocks and huge piles of bouJJ .. retJirncd froin their rnan-hunt. ers of various shapes and sizes. Passed A chilling \vind blew all day and in by a nun1ber of places where were good the afternoon vve vvere visited by slight feed and sloughs of water, but did not showers of :Ql.in and a little snow. Prep- stop until we crossed Pel use river, arations for supper might be an1using to then camped upon its banks. An accisotne of our easten1 frie11c1s. A de ira- dP~lt. \YOI't 1t n1eui,io11 ing happm1ed nt Notes By tlte Way. 49 --~-----~----~-----------------------~ noon. One of the party emptied the Clark's Fork on the north, the Sahnon coals from the stove into the tall dry river and its adjacent country. on the grass-a brisk breeze blowing at the the east, are all gold bearing regions time-it was soon fanned into a flame; where mining is being extensively carand in much less time than it requires ried on, and this valley being one of the to make this.rccord a vast ampitheatre main avenues leading to them, perhaps of fla1nes encircled our whole train. it would not be mere speculation to add How the women extricated then1selves that the day is drawing near when . the from their perilous position without be- m?st if not all of these unoccupied lands ing encompassed in blazing crinoline, is w1ll be under cultivation, t een1ing -vvith more than we can comprehend; but so it the labor of the husbandman. Legends was; and fortunately for us nothing was of the country ~ay that the seasons arc injured but one sett of harness and a propitious for agriculture. This evening few dishes. the wind has lulled, and it is raining CAMP 104, SEPT. 29 :-Followed the lightly. The complication of recorded river to-day fording it in five places. circu1nstances did not prevent us fro1n The roads to 1nake the best them are a preparing and enjoying a hearty supper. miserable failure, and we were una-bl CAMP 105, SEPT. 30 :-Continued on a e to make our usual average distance. the san1e course of the river· for a short The sky was overcast all day, and the thick murky clouds hovering around tin1e this morning, crossing it three betokened a coming stonn. The pre- tin1es. At the last crossing -yv~e leave vailing wind made dull music to our Peluse river, and we found it fifteen ears, as in fitful gusts it swept over the miles from that to the Snake river, over ground, raking up and filling the air a road that vve can say nothing in its with blinding, choking clouds of dust. favor. Stopped at noon at the foot of a The ground being so strongly impreg- hill to allow the animals to grnze. I~ nated with alkali that it is like lin1e to was rather dry picking, but t hey n1antC. e organs of sight, and its effects Are nged to do reasonable j usticc to thmnplain1y visible in the inflan1ed, blood- selves on such as there \vas. This deshot eyes of a nunlbe.r of the conlpany. lectable region. is the sun1 total of bar- Th h'll h 1 t tl · f h · renness, wanting in everything to make e 1 s ave os some ling 0 t eu it beautiful. Trees to orna1nent are not ragged rocky appearance, and begin to here, water to fertilize is elsevvhere to decline leaving the country 1nore open be found. Reached the river before and 1 olling, but barren of tim her. As night approached we searched for some night, and crossed it at the ~onfluence distance along the river for an inviting of the Peluse. The Pel use joins the . spot on which to camp. Snake through a deep Canyon commencing at a point where we last Where vve did halt the river was bor- crossed it , and is surrounded by isolated dered by banks of perpendicular rock, volcanic buttes to its 1nouth. and up them it was difficult to convey The ferry-boat was a n1iserably gotwater. Our fuel is what dry flood-wood ten up affair and required rnuch 1nanua.l we can gather that has beQn washed exercise before we were transpo.rted to down from the n1ountains. Since cross- the other shore, employing us until tng the Spokane, we have traveled over after dark. vVe have yet to hear an insome sections of good agricultural land, dividual speak well of Snake river. A but they are all limited and widely sep- cold wind nearly suffocated us again toarated. But as the Columbia river on day with dust. Catnped in deep sand ; the west, the Spokane, Clearv-vater and 1 hut there is nn advantn.gP in that ; the |
