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Show 21 and he several oial suQsEYq;uently parties promoted wa.s sent west by railroad J.. tween the through Gtmnison,' s the bi.gh and He was the Wasato-h Range 0 Gunnison and his and the plains they crossed- the following day In possible railroad eligible party spent to be was He was «I His Trail the- off'il""" explored to on explo& the summer orossing on the oanyons of the Except three the ravine general or area tbreugh 18.53 working· of Colorado. He September 30 anci area are very d-&!- give considerable information about the land through whieh describing be.... into the: Gl"eat. a:p>proaoru.:ng descriptions at o£ .. railroad passes and high Rocky Mountains Spanish one routes for the Paoific thirtninth parallels& reached the Green River at the passed. government' on one of tQ find the best passes and also, their way-'across the tailed and a to head:- designated of the Grand and Green Rivers and. region 2. and plot possible mountains Q£ Colorado for f'urther into the Basin. find and route for thirty-eighth captain the United states S11.r'Veying- expeditions to 0 t() he Gunni.son says: four small cottonwood trees in near us there is not a tree to be seen the unassi.sted eye on any part of the hO,r:iThe plain ly-ing between us and the Wahsateh zono by range, a Aundred miles to the west, is, a series of rocky, parallel chasma, and fantastic: sandstone ridges, on.ntM higher 'ridges" twnt.y ·miJ.es back scattering cedars may be distinguished nth and to the south mass after mas.s the glass; of coarse conglomerate·is broken.in .fragments or piled in turret-shaped heaps, colored by ferru ginous cement from deep black to a brilliant red, while in some rocks there are argillaceous layers, varying to gray or glistening with whi te The surface around us .18 whitened wi.th fields of alkall, preCisely resembling fields of sn.ow. The soft in mases along the sharp clayey earth a . £ew 0 4) t). 000 apfears sides of the bluffo lReport of Explorations .il!9:. .:t2. Ascertain Most Practicable am. ,Eqon9mieal !Qr..i. RailrQad i.l:Qm Missi.ssippi .Ri1l:!.t. !r.2. Ooean, .3Jrd Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Executive Document no. 78, Volume II, Part I, (Washington, Beverly Tucker, 18.5.5), 61. |
