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Show 30 OVERLAND ROUTE 764;f mirey. Water good. Four miles north of this place, toward the snowy mountains, is p]r~nty of grass which can be cut, (in case you can find non rank enough, nny nearer,) and it will be well for emigrants to lay in a few sacks, to as .. ist their teams upon the Great Cut-ofl: upon which they will enter at the Dig Sandy R iver. From last point (Paci1ic Springs,) it is one mile and a l1 alf to a I~ CROSSING OF CREEl(. Rather bad to cross. Grass plenty. After leaving this creek there is no vvater fit to use, for t\venty -three miles.From here it is fifteen miles to the 15 JUNCTION OF ROADS. The left hand road loads to Salt Lake, the other is tho Groat Sublette Cut-off, by taking which, three or four days travel can be saved. Of course we take the latter, and from here it is seven miles to 7 LITTLE SANDY RIVER.This is one of the tributaries of the · great Colorado, which flowB into the 788! TO CALIFORNIA. 31 7881 Gulf of California. Some grass and willows are here found. After six miles travel, you reach 6 BIG SANL Y RIVER. Good grass and willows, in places. After leaving this sti earn you enter upon a dry region, and will find no water until you arriYe at Green R iver, a distance of fifty-four miles. Emigrants will do well to rest a day at this place. It is the usual, and perhaps the best way, to leave Big Sandy River by three or four o'clock, P. M., and travel steadily until you arrive at Green River, stopping only long enough to rest your teams a little, and to water them.We \Vere twenty-four hours in crossing from river to ri ver, but the usual time occupied was frotn twenty-seven to twenty eight hours. The road is over an undulating country, with some high hills, and is, with a fe'v exceptions, hard and pretty good, but we found tho dust quite annoying. 54 GREEN RIVER. Plenty of grass after crossing the river, but none on S48! |