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Show 26 much bad road by leaving the old trail and fording the river. Sixteen miles travel from the timber, brings you across the river three times ; the fourth ford is a good camping place. You now leave the river and do not find good water for sixteen miles. At this distance you cross the Sweet Water again ; it is forty feet wide, two feet deep, grass and water, with willow for fuel. In the following five miles, you cross and recross thP. river to avoid bau road; n~ar here the road crosses a branch of the _river. !hree miles from this brings you to a good spr1ng--a httle to the right of the trail. It is a fine place to camp. SWEET WATER is fifteen ~iles further, and good for camping. There is much bad road in this distance • ' cr~eks are numerous, grass and water good. "fen miles further brings you to the SOUTH PASS, distant from Fort Larimie three hun· dred miles, or about nine hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of the ~ansas. Alt. 7 490 feet; Lat. 42 o 27' 15"; Lon. 109 ° 27'32''. It is difficult, from the gradual ascent ~f t~e P~ss, to find the precise summit; the point of culm1nahon IS between two low hills ab0ut sixty feet high. The Pass is about nineteen mile~ in width, without any gorg~-like appearance. Between the Pass and the junction of the CALIFORNI. .~. & OREGON roads, nineteen miles distant, you will find the road good except in one ravine• water and grass good. To the ' DRY SANDY, wood is scarce; wild sage will be your ?nly fuel. Be sure to follow the road leading to the l~ft, If you d? .. not wis~ to follow the route described in the note. Sixteen mtles further, you will find a good place to camp on the th [At tthis ~ohint we call the ~tten~ion of the traveler to e no e. e road to the rtght is an old trail. The .· 27 present road is carried some seventy miles out of a direct course, by passing Fort Bridger. When you cross the Dry, or Little ~andy, i~stead of turning to th~ left and following the river, stnke out across to the Btg Sandy, twelve miles. If you get to the river along through the day, camp till near. ni~ht. From.the Big Sa~dy to Green river, a distance ot thuty-five m1les, there IS not a ~rop · of water. By starting from the Sandy at the cool of the day, you can get across easily by morning. . Cattle can travel as far again by night as they can dur1ng the day, from the fact that the air is cool, and consequently they do not need water. Recollect, do not attempt to cross during the day. You strike the ureen river a tew miles above a small streatn that comes in from the northwest. ~After resting a day at Green riyer, commence your route again. When you leave the r1ver, keep a west, northwest course, to the branch; you strike it in about twelve miles by the trail; by ke~p1ng. more ·west, you ~an '.I J reach it sooner. Follow 1t to 1t~ head, then strike across the high ·· plain for the tnountain~, at the ~e~d. of Thomas' Fork of the Bear river. J{eep on the d1v1d1ng ridge until you come near the Bear river valley, then descend and cross down to the mouth of the Fork, when you find the main road. This is a fi!le road all the .~ray; grass and fuel being plenty, and w1th the e:ccephon of the distanJe between the Sandy and Green r1vers, there is fine water. By referring to the large map, you ~an see t!lat you save nearly five days travel bf follow1ng what I have taken the liberty to call Sublette s C1lit Off.] .BIG S ..~ NDY. There is neither grass nor water in the next twenty miles, when you reach the GREEN RIVER FORD-a bold stream, two pnn· dred and fifty feet wide. If the Ford is too deep, go t~1'o miles higher up; grass, water and timber ar~ good. For five miles the grass continues good; there lS none then to be found for fifteen miles. BL ACl{'S FORI{. is fifteen miles distant. Opportu ... ., nities for can1ping are good, timber is not very plenty .. 1{ Al\PS FOill{, four miles further, is a fine rap1d >-\ ream, forty feet wide, grass good. Seventeen miles |
