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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 203 Colorado Teritory, and his party. We saw no Indians upon the entire route until we reached Provo, on Utah lake, although the whole distance passed was in the country of the Utahs. "We travelled through the Middle Park, and arrived at the Springs on Blue river, ninety miles from Denver, on the mornirrg of the 12tl1, where we laid over to arrange our packs and enjoy bathing and fishing. The trout in the river were splendid; we caught several weighing two pouuds each. On the west side of the river are several hot springs, strongly impregnated with sulphur. One can scarcelv bear his hand in them. On the east ~ i d teh ere is a svrin-e of apparently the same chemical properties, but it is as cold as ice. "The Middle Park consists of wide, fertile valleys and prairies, enclosed on all sides by high mountains. Small detached mountains are scattered through it, their sides covered with timber. The valleys are free from timber, excepting occasionally a grove of aspen. "From the Blue to the Yampah or Bear river, we passed over a very pic-turesque country, and arrived on the Yampah river, near its head, one hundred and fifty miles from Denver, on the 15th; laid over a day, on account of the sickness of Major Bridger, and then bore him on a litter between two mules for two days. The valley of the Yampah is very fertile. Alpug it are groves of large cottonwood, and the hills on either side are covered with fir and aspen. "We followed the Yampi& about eighty miles, to where it enters deep, narrow caiions, and becomes very crooked, whence we crossed over to the northern head of Tayshahpah or White river, whieh we followed down about eighty miles to its mouth, at Colorado or Green river. We crossed the Oolorado above the mouth of the Uint~hw, hich enters above, but nearly opposite the Tayshah-pah; it is about one hundred and fifty yards wide, and quite deep. We made a raft, with which we crossed our provisions, &c., in two trips, and swam our animals acmss, drowning two mules. "We followed up the valley of the Uintah and the Duchine fork of the Uintah, gradually asceuding to the Waugatch range, which we crossed, through a very good pass, to a stream, (Daniel's creek,) which we followed down to its junction with the Timpanogos river. Here we first found Mormon settlements, and struck a finely worked wagon road, over which we passed through Timpa-nogos caiion thirty miles to Provo City, near the margin of Utah lake, where we arrived on the 18th of August, making the trip in twenty-seven and a half days, including the loss of five and a half days in exploring the route aud resting in camp. "We have found a good route, not only for a wagon road, bnt for the Pacific railroad. The distance cannot be much more than four hundred and fifty miles from Denver to Utah lake. It will shorten the route from the Missouri river to California at least two hundred miles. There is an abundance of water and grass along the wh~iler oute. ,On the lower part of Tayshahpah river timber for buildin-e is scarce, but there is o.l entv"~-f or fuel. With this excen.t ion.. timber in ab~rndatnt; it r311si.t.r of pine, tir, currvnwooJ, aspen, cedar, arid piRon. The soil i~lung:i ll tlw *rrnrrnd i~ exr~llenta, nd u.ill adr~iro f the I.i~_rhttaet ultivati*~~~. linr the lasr one buridred .tnd fifrv miles un the Uinrah rhere~sevidrntlv little rain, but the land can he easily irrigated, and the grazing for stock is exckllent. We passed througll a long distance of tertiary sandstone, with occasionally a strata of gypsum or limestone, and we saw several outcrops of coal. Near the mouth of Tayshahpah river we noticed bluffs of white limestone. when we first entered the Wausatch mountaius they were composed of sandstone, hut on the west side they are of blue limestone. Some of it is intersected with white veins, admitting of a polish, and forms a beautiful marble." Returning from Utah lake, he located, surveyed, and marked the road to Denver, nearly upon the route described, varying from it only from the head of Tayshahpah river to Blue river, by which it was made more direct. The route |