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Show 230 mountain" in company with George W. Bean who showed them the country t o the north that his men had explored. He then showed them the White Mountain (Wheeler Peak) where h i s own settlement was n e s t l e d at i t s eastern base. This mountain was magnificently clothed with timber and draped with a heavy mantle of snow. To the south they could see t h e i r destination-Meadow Valley-about seventy miles d i s t a n t . Here Martineau continued his observations, taking bearings with the surveyor's compass t o the major land forms and making notes for his map. In t h i s way he insured the accuracy of the map which would aid a later generation t o prove the t r a i l s of the White Mountain Expedition. The explorers named t h i s mountain Pinnacle Peak which i s the 10,063 foot Patterson Peak in the Schell Creek Range. Descending the mountain's eastern slope into Lake Valley, the exploring p a r t i e s divided. Bean and Barney proceeded east across tbe valley while Dame turned t o the south and traveled along the v a l l e y 's western bench. Plodding south down the present course of U.S. Highway 93 u n t il 10 P.M., Dame's company camped a t the foot of the small Fairview Range without finding water. They logged t h i r t y - t w o hard miles since leaving Bean's camp in Cave Valley. The l i g h t of dawn found the twelve men again pressing southward. Within a mile of camp they discovered a "considerable spring" on the mountain side. The explorers had found Pony Springs, but the Mormons called t h i s welcome find Cric-ket Spring "from the great number of those insect about." It had been a long dry march from the spring on P a t t e r s o n Pass t o these springs, and Dame feared the Hopkins'company might pass by t h i s oasis and find i t s e l f in serious difficulty. Accordingly, he assigned John Couch and Samuel Hamilton t o stay behind at the springs and guide the Iron County detachment t o the water, then bring them i n t o Meadow Valley. Five miles south of Cricket Spring they suddenly came upon another s p r i n g - |