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Show RECONNAISSANCE IN THE UTE COUNTRY. 41 light- gray syenite, sugar- loaf in general outlines, but presenting in all the slopes a remarkable array of conical spires, nearly uniform in size and shape, arising from base to summit, covering the mountains, the deep shadows showing the bold relief of these spires. From Mount Huxley to Mount Stuart Mill is a low timbered ridge, and from Mill another low ridge extends to Carpenter, and then a line of ridges and crests extend to the summit south of Camp 14. Ascent of Mount MM.- From Camp 16, accompanied by Mr. L. Hawn, I ascended Mount Mill, starting at 10 a. m., and getting back at 5.30 p. m. We fonnd no difficulty in the ascent, but steady hard work for four hours and twenty minutes* The timber, approaching the summit, extends from camp far up the slope, very dense, and fire- killed in places. The herbage is rank beneath and fallen timber concealed under grass makes traveling tedious. We struck the foot of a back- bone extending one and a half to two miles from the peak toward Camp 16, up which we climbed. This back- bone is from 50 to 200 feet high, nearly vertical sides, and just sufficient crest to give foot- way. This gave us quite an easy ascent for a long way, but was broken at one point, where we had a descend to slide rock, and ascend again with considerable difficulty and risk. Found Mount Mill to consist of three or four peaks lying in the great curve already described as sweeping around from Mount Owen to south of Camp 14, connected by high crests, all above timber. The peak ascended is the highest of them. It is of syenite, light gray, very rugged, presenting, from a distance, little variety of form of surface, but nearer it is seen to be much broken. West of the Bah Eiver runs a gentle slope, said to be sandstone- Country heavily timbered to the divide of the Grand and the Gunnison. This slope becomes much cut by gorges and canons, but its surface indicates stratified rock. Northward, the view includes masses of immense peaks, wild and formless, snow- capped, rising in chaos- nothing else. Southward and southeastward are peaks breaking away toward the Gunnison, and revealing the Uncompahgre Mountains in the distance. Heavy clouds prevented a view of the latter. Storms were seen in all directions- thunder, lightning, rain- and one high peak grand, black, and weird. Slight snow fell as we came down; rain below saturated us returning through the woods. Continuation of the march.- From Camp 14, now become 17, the route was down a gulch called " Nigger Gulch," because it had been prospected by a negro. There had been rumors of gold, but as the negnTbad not re- appeared, those rumors remained as such. The route lay high on the hill- side of the steep narrow gulch, through the richest of bunch- grass, two feet high, and bending under the weight of its seed like fields of ripe grain.. Higher up the slopes is good timber- aspen, spruce, and fir. Camp 18 was made at the junction of Nigger Gulch and Washington Gulch with Slate River. East River comes in a few miles farther down- Slate River is a tributary of the Taylor. Lone Mountain.- We remained at Camp 18 one day to allow of the ascent of Lone Mountaiir^ kn isolated peak between Washington and Bast River. The outlines around the base of it are perfectly beautiful in the soft rolling outlines, green with luxuriant grass, and bright with clumps of aspens. Mr. Hine, Thornton, the guide, and I made the ascent, taking animals about one- halfway up, and photographic material to within about |