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Show 210 restored, tbe Paiutes informed Dame where a small spring could be found just over tbe divide, and the company departed. Near present Shingle Pass on the summit of the Egan Range, the water hole was located and named Indian Spring. Here they unsaddled their horses, rested, and ate their lunch. While there, the Indian family dropped in for another visit. As in the past, the inseparable threesome of Dame, Martineau, and Johnson climbed a nearby mountain peak to view the country and get their bearings. Considering the talents of Johnson and Martineau, it is little wonder that Dame relied on them so heavily. Martineau, Dame's adjutant and closest advisor in the Legion, was an excellent surveyor and the company's journalist. Johnson was an intrepid explorer and a superb interpreter. As essential as the Indians proved to be in guiding the company, they would have been worthless without the services of a good interpreter. From this "high granite peak," perhaps Shingle Peak, the three explorers gazed down upon a high mountain valley which they called Three Butte Valley because of three small buttes in it. Across the valley lay the snow-capped peaks of the Schell Creek Range. This was Cave Valley, the same that was mentioned as the rendezvous point for the two elements of George W. Bean's expedition. Although they did not know it at the time, if it had not been such a hazy day, Dame's party would have been able to see Adams's company of Iron County men entering this unexplored valley from the north. Looking to the north and five degrees west they "obtained a glimpse of a high snow peak.. .supposed to be a peak of the White mountain."10 Here they were again viewing the Ruby Range far to the north. These were the same mountains that Dame pronounced to be the White Mountains from Altar Peak. Unimpressed with the possibilities of making a settlement in Three Butte (Cave) Valley, and unable to get proper bearings because of the cloudy weather, |