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Show 37 Loren20 Sitgreav.es was given cOMmand of the first of this series exploring parties. His outfit may have been largely assembled at Shnta Fe; but he soon moved his encampment to Zuni, which had Indicative of been designated as the l:reginning of his survey. the general membership of such parties and their preparation for their 'Work, we may note that in the Sitgreaves p.rty was a physi cian, a naturalist, a photographer and a draftsmen. Antoine Le Roux was a guide. (We may note the perpetuated name of this somewhat famous French scout in the Lrux Wash just west of Hol brook; in Le Leroux Springe at the south foot of the san Fran cisco Mountains; and I take it that we find his name, Antoine, in the family of an early Mormon familiar with the early LDS colonies along the central Little Colorado and elsewhere, whom The I suspect of being an admirer of the French frontiersman. for had some et.; 30 carrying food, equipment, pack-mules party and half that number of packers and 'arrieros' (mule-skinners). A military escort joined the party at Zuni. They had no wagons. To this officer of journey was made 5eptewber 24, 185l--likely a little late in the day since only about 6 miles were travelled-- perhaps it was necessary at the b!ginning to make b-.etter distri b At this Camp 1. ution of loads and adjustment of pack-saddles. Sitgreaves writes of cornfields along the Zuni Wash, which was The start their on a mere rivulat. At p 2, there was a good spring; but its waters were. soon There was ver,y swallowed up by the thirsty quicksands below. little grazing for the animals; but this is not surprising so At this Camp #2, they found broken near the Zuni Village. evidencing an earlier encampment of etc., pack-saddles, boxes, white men---Sitgreaves thotght this was the encampment of a here but Mr. ChIlier and Lieutenant country in 1849. Thom, who had passed through the the Little COlorado. They had passed over the and the Zuni Wash River the between plateau the in with the River vicinity. of the which makes confluence of the River is channels of number Hunt. Camp #4 was "peninsula" or on low Mentionb@na present made---there should have' water at "The Meadowsfl• plenty of good grazing and wood and Camp #6, they by-passed the confluent Silver creek can site by tralling north of the River; and passed through the From yon of the future Woodruff, andfecrossing the Little Colorado to the south side not far above Woodruff Butte, which they called tcanon Beak. Camp #7 was probably not far from this peak, of course Camp #8 was perhaps somewhere along the foothills south of that long line of diversion dsm sites used later achieved the building of by the St. Joseph colonists before they have passed through Little dam. may first Sitgreaves their penmanent the ri \er below Woodruff Butte---he men of descent his in Valley tions the perpendicular walls on both sides of thecanyon of the River; across the river from it. narrow,.dep washes of those have so familar---these been Joseph some trouble with wagons, but he had perhaps have not delayed him much with horses and none, and they should farther downstream, he with which the people of St. would have given him and ...,..-: seeaks |
