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Show RECONNAISSANCE IN THE UTE COUNTRY. 43 aspen, fir, and spruce. Here and there are exposed red and gray masses of sandstone. The trail then leaves the gulch, rising to the hilltop on the left to avoid a caiion through which the creek passes. This gallon is a half mile long. The north side is a nearly vertical wall 300 to 400 feet high, of red and gray sandstone, and the other side a timbered slope. After passing the canon the trail descends again to the stream. Here is a valley two miles long by three- fourths wide through whicK the stream falls with little flow. Here are numerous springs flowing down from the hills, and the usual fine bunch- grass. The hills are 500 to 1,000 feet high and expose ledges of dark red sandstone* From the head of this valley the trail leaves the creek and turns sharply to the right, up a very steep, heavily- timbered hill, about 1,200 feet above Caiion Creek, while the creek comes down through a gulch with steep, high mountains of red saudstonfe. Deadmaris Gulch.- From this divide the descent led us to Deadman's Gulch, which is a steep, narrow gulch with an ice- cold and perpetual brook of little size. Its slopes where exposed are grassed knee- deep with bunch- grass. The hills on either side are, perhaps, 1,000 feet high, steep and heavily timbered with spruce and fir; much of this timber is fire- killed. This region between the Slate and Taylor is very high, with rounded sandstone hills, much cut by gulches, like Deadman's. Spring Oreek to Taylor River.- The divide between Deadman's Gulch and Spring Creek is a hilly, grassy ridge. Spring Creek has a bowlder bed, is about 20 feet wide, and 1 to 1£ deep. The valley below narrows to a mere gulch between barren hill- sides. Above, the valley is wider and the creek appears to head, together with Deadman's, in the Elk Mountains. Our route earned us up a tributary of Spring Creek, a country of sparse timber and grass and much sandstone debris, over a low, flat divide, and down a small tributary of the Taylor Kiver, on which we made Camp 21, at the edge of a flat, swampy glade, about one and a half mile long, northeast and southwest, by half a mile wide, in which was plenty of very poor grass. The camp was in heavy timber, on the skirt of a steep hill, and was a very poor one for stock. The glade was surrounded by dense spruce-pine timber, and ended in a rocky canon at the northeast end, down which our trail led to Taylor's Eiver. The bed of the stream in this caiion was filled by enormous bowlders, and the sides were covered by the charred remains of a burned forest. At a sudden turn in the trail we found ourselves on the side of a hill, overlooking the valley of Taylor Eiver, into which we descended, making Camp 22 on the main stream, about one mile above the mouth of the creek, from out of Red Mount Pass. We staid a day or two in this camp, while I made arrangements for my scout to go to the head of Taylor River, and to give Professor Hawn an opportunity to visit a mining settlement on a spur of the main range, about two miles above the canon, and for Mr. Hine to visit and photograph the canon. Pr& utfs scouts.- At Camp 22 I turned the party over to Mr. Bassel, with instructions to continue the line, awaiting my return at mouth of South Arkansas, unless I joined them sooner. With Thornton I started up the Taylor, endeavoring to reach Tennessee Pass by some of the waters of the Grand, being encouraged by the fact that an old trail leads up the Taylor, and the Taylor slope of the pass looks practicable. We marched rapidly up Taylor, and. for a mile or so up West Fork upon a plain, and open old trail, which turned to the right, up a tributary of West Fork. The gulch of this tributary lies in timbered hills, at the |