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Show 209 north of the springs the party turned east up Pine Canyon, so-called from i ts abundance of cedar and pinon pine, and camped a mile above i t s mouth. Like many of the mountain canyons they had discovered in t h i s region, i t was "full of bunch grass, capable of sustaining thousands of c a t t l e . But according to Dame, i t "has no regular stream in i t ." On Thursday, May 13, the main camp, finding Desert Swamp Springs an undesirable location to s e t t l e , continued north another 17 miles to Willow Springs. Like Desert Swamp Springs, Willow Springs spread out over the valley bottom creating a large wire grass meadow a mile across. But the climate was reported to be "very frosty," and, even though i t was estimated that the water was sufficient to water several hundred acres, Martineau conceded that "the land is highly impregnated with a l k a l i which i s the prevailing characteristic of this country." Dame believed that there was less alkali here than at Desert Swamp Springs, however. ' What the desert camp had found was the springs known today as Immigrant Springs, which can be seen just west of Nevada Highway 38 on the property owned by the Utah-Nevada Livestock Company (UNELCO) sixteen miles south of Lund. As the main camp was r o l l i n g up the valley toward Willow (immigrant) Springs, Dame and party were winding t h e i r way up Pine Canyon-tbe present Shingle P a s s - to get a look at the valley east of them. Suddenly they came upon a family of Indians who had not been aware of their presence in the canyon. The natives were terrified. Two small children ran up into the cedars one hundred yards i n "8 away "screaming with a l l t h e i r might, and calling their parents to escape axso. But the parents remained at t h e i r camp desperately trying to conceal an infant. To be sure, they thought Dame's men would try to take the child, as these people had been the frequent victims of slavers. The explorers pacified them, however, by giving them some b i s c u i t s as quickly as possible. Once t r a n q u i l i ty had been |