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Show 104 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. LARGE CREEK ..................... · . . . . . . . . . .... 4 Good camping; now a hilly country. ANOTHER LARGE CREEK...... . . . . • . . . . . . . . . ... 5 Good camping; now a beautiful valley country to MARSH, OR SWAMP CREEl{.... ............. . .... 8 Here is much coarse grass, some good; pass on up and around the marsh to the ford, cross and ascend an easy grade road to mountain, which is steep ; on descending it you will find a very fine spring on your left, among the " 'illows. SPRING AMONG THE WILLOWS ................ 9 Some grass below these springs. SPRINGS AND CREEK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . 2 Good camping. You will now pass a number of springs and creeks bet,veen this and LITTLE CREEIC ............. .. .................... II Now look to your distances to water, after leaving the next creek. TROUT, OR GRAVELLY CREEIC . . . . . . .......... 9 Good water and grass ; there is a valley lying to the left and east of this, over a ridge, where there is much good grass. You had better camp on this creek, as the~e is no more water for twenty-five miles. By going down the creek a mile or two, you will se'e the remains of Indian fish-traps, used in the winter for catching trout. Now over a ridge, up a winding ra:vine, then a mountain to THE SUMMIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 You will now have a very steep descent to make, then a fair road along a plain and over dusty ridges, to SPRING AND Cl~EEIC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 17 Good grass, if early in the season. SMALL SPRING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Not much grass ; now over a summit and down to a spring, and on. to MUDDY CREEK.................. • • • • • . . • . . • • • . . . 7 ' • NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. You pass down this stream and ravine, to the valley of Raft river. This is a most beautiful valley 25 miles in width, and 60 or more in length, surrounded by lofty mountains, with much snow upon them ; the valley presents hardly an irregularity upon its great, broad surface of green, nothing indeed to catch or stay the eye, save a long serpentine line of willows, that differing in their color from the darker green around them, marks the course of a little stream that makes its way along the valle"v , and is one of the sources of Raft river. 105 RAFT RIVER, EAST BRANCH . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... 12 Abundance of grass and musquitoes; no wood. MIDDLE BRANCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Still more mosquitoes, if near evening. WEST BRANCH .................................... 5 Good grass after cro~sing, and some fuel. Near here is the road leading from Fort Hall to Salt Lake. Sometimes this west branch is bad to ford, and if not bridged -as it usually is-you can cross at a ford eight miles to the right, and soon reach the main road again. You now follow a ridge a few miles, then cross several small creeks to LITTLE RAFT RIVER. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . 8 MIDDI.~E VALLEY CREEK ........................ 2~ MOUNTAIN CREEl{................... . ........... 3 First rate camping here. Around the head of this creek are the STEEPLE, OR CITY ROCKS ......... ··.· .... ····· These rocks rise up from the ground apart from each other with nearly perpendicular sides, from 50 to 150 feet high, many of them with their tops so regularly rounded and pointed, as to be easily fancied to resemble the domes and spires of mosques and cathedrals ; or as a more lowly comparison, a collection of vast hay stacks, which at a distance. some of them grea.tly resemble, 4 |