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Show 32 RECONNAISSANCE IN THE UTE COUNTRY. $ 30,000, now abandoned. This, with a fewr leads on Godman's Creek, said to run $ 500 per ton, are the only known leads in the lake mining-district, and these had only been worked for the claim. A few burros were seen, indicating presence of prospectors and some very old tracks on the trail; probably not more than six men in the district, and they prospecting. To Camp 45.- From land- slide to Camp 45 trail good and plenty of grass; valley from a quarter to three- quarters of a mile wide, with rolling foot- hills and sparse growth of yellow pine, spruce, and aspen, having a truly charming appearance at the Lower Falls, where we made Camp 45. On our march from Camp 44 to Camp 45, roses, cardinal flowers, larkspurs, daisies, gentians, Solomon's seal, and many other flowers, were seen. Wild flowers are much more abundant and beautiful than on the eastern slope. In truth, the valleys of the Rio Grande and Arkansas, even up in Antelope Park on the Twiu Lakes, are dry and barren compared with similar valleys on the Pacific Slope. Lake Fork, especially above the Lower Falls, is a beautiful stream with abrupt rocky banks, flowing in dalles and cascades with a friuge of timber along most of its course; some fine photographs ijp and down the Lake Fork and lake were here made. The Lower Falls.- The Lower Falls are very picturesque. The river flows very rapidly, confined in a gorge 30 feet wide, to the crest of the first pluuge of about 25 feet; the stream then runs in a gorge, funnel-shaped, contracting to about 15 feet width at the crest of the main fall. Here it shoots out into the air and drops 60 feet; a clear fall into a deep wall- sided gorge below, about 150 feet long and 75 feet from surface of water to brink of rock above; below, these walls rapidly lower until they are but little above the stream. Immediately above and below the falls the cliffs at water- level are worn into deep and irregular caverns. From the crest of the first leap to 50 feet down the gorge under the lower leap, the water is lashed to a snow- white foam of most lovely shapes, much like the Upper Fork of the Yellowstone. From the foofc of the sheet, foam and spray rise high above walls of the canon so as to wet my book I as sat above writing. Bright rainbows played about and over the canon. Godman Creek.- From Camp 45 I rode up Godman Creek for about three miles. Found it a deep gulch nearly east and west. The north face of the gulch is generally about 2,000 or 2,500 feet above the stream, of reddish- gray trap, with much slide , sloping very sharply down to within 200 or 300 feet of stream, then ending in a vertical cliff. No soil or vegetation on this slope. Exposes deep furrows and sharp crests up and down the slope. The southern face is much the same, but holds a thin* soil with scant timber and vegetation, thus making a trail possible. Went up this trail in search of miners and to learn about the reputed leads of this gulch. Found the trail steep, rocky, and very rough- a burro trail. There were on it some recent tracks of two or three burros, a man, and a dog. No further sign or trace of the miners of the lake district. These tracks were down the trail. My ride was terminated by a formidable gulch, which I did not think advisable to attempt with a mule. Godman Creek is about half the size of the Lake Fork above their junction; wild and swift, its bright green waters flecked with foam, winding in cascades through its picturesque gorge. Camp 45 to 46.- From Camp 45 down the valley the trail was very |