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Show trai I across where a If Wa II ace Hayes stream of cool one uses Creek,' Lugans Basin led the water pasturage existed. Mesa and the trail up Kimball Furthermore, the Jerry Gulch Creek and Bolton conjectured by the distances do not fit. wide are not to be found. travelers to c Ii ffs that down are discrepancy leagues given for the total distance trav the eled by Escalante. They tot1 only 5.25 leagues. At the beginning of Chavez. mentioned not distance a by identifies half-league day's march Bolton This description is given after the party had gone slightly more than two leagues from the San Si Ivestre campsite. only one yard There seems to be a between Bolton's and Chavez's six September On the 5th 5 left Santa Rosalia headed north incline without troublesome rocks we west, went up an but extremely steep and dangerous when approachinq the top, because there are winding' turns where the The path is not more than a third of a yard wide. so it is and white loose is of dirt, very footing and should it very easy for some horse to sl ip; to happen to lose its footing it would not be able below. keep itself from reaching the level ground The ascent must be somewhat more than a quarter league long, counting the half already covered. We descended it through a spreading narrow valley which in places produces nothing but scrub oak and chokecherry, and in others ponderosa pine and white popular; then, after going a little more than four leagues to the northwest, we entered a sma I I woods of juniper whi Ie swinging half a league north-northwest, and after a short stretch of sagebrush arrived at a river which our own cal I San Rafael, and the Yutas Red River. We crossed by good pastures it and halted its northern and a middl ing edge on a there is a chain of side On this poplar grove. are of white earth from the top which mesas high down to the middle, and from the middle down evenly striated with yel low, white, and' not too deeply tinged red ochre. This river carries more water than that of EI Norte; it comes down, according to what they told us, from a great lake which lies in the high Sierra de los Sabuaganas next (toward meadow of Its course La Grulla. and it enters the is to west-southwest, along At the ford it splits into that of the Dolores. two branches, and the water reached the mounts the north) to that of here above the shoulder blades. Some which crossed -81- |
