Overland route to California, description of the route, via Council Bluffs, Iowa: keeping the north side of the Platte River for the whole of the distance, lying near that stream, thence over the South Pass via the great Sublette and Bear River cut-offs, and the Truckee river road, over the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento Valley

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38 OVERLAND ROUTE 1004 tinues so for one mile further. It then ,posses thrvugh a 1 WRT GULL 1"', between the hills and for half a mile is very bad. By turning short to the left, upon a new track, and aEcending the steep bluff, much of the worst of it can be avoid­ed. Two miles and a half further is a long and 2~ STEEP DESCENT, and half a mile more is ~ PAN 1~ ACK RIVER, which is a tributarv., to the Columbia river. After ascending the LJuffs, ( fil:st cro~sing the river,) thQ road runs in sight of river, and four miles from last named point, it 4 TURNS TO TilE LEFT. You will find good grass all along the river side to thi:3 place. Road is no\V over a good mountain track, for eight miles, to 8 FALL CREEK, then over bluffs one mile, then over intervale land three miles more, to 1020 1020 4 TO CALIFORNIA. 39 MOUNTAIN, and after five miles, you reach a 5 AIC lUNT AIN SPRING. Half a milo beyond a Cedar grove on a sum· mit, (a mile and a half from the last spring) is a 1~ S~1ALL STEAM. After a long descent, cross small ridge and two creeks, within quarter of a mile.­Good mountain road to cro3sing of a 6 SPRING BROOI{. A spring on left of road. After two miles more, yon come to 2 WILLOW CREEK. Two cross-ings within one quarter of a r'1ile.­Travel near the creek for oue mile and a half. Grass for the last nine miles has been abundant. Over a good road for eight miles, to 8 BIG SPRING CREEK, which you will cross. Thts creek runs from a large, fine spring, abvu t eighty rods from the road. 'fra vel within half a mile of the creek, for a mile and a 1046!