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Show 202 UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. Creek cafion, sixteen miles, which has a very gradual descent, and admits of a good road being built up it. It is now filled with a thick growth of timber and , small brush. I am informed there are good passes for roads out of the south-west side of Strawberry valley, down streams entering Utah lake at or near Spanish Fork and Springville, thus dording a nearly straight road from Utah lake to the mouth of the Uintah river, and, indeed, to Denver City and Leairen-. , worth, on the Missouri river. The Uintah Indian reservation is entirely free from white settlers. I t may he considered-the bottoms, the table-land, and even the mountains--as a fine grazing country. The valleys are as I have described. I t is well watered and abundantly timbered. The climate is warm, and from all accounts the winters are so light as not to prevent stock living on the range and doing well all winter. I consider it most admirably adapted for the permanent location of the Indians in small settlements on its various streams. Of course, an agent would he re-quired to Feside in their midst, whose proper location would unquestionably he on the Uintah river, at the place designated by Chief Antero for his residence. From this place he could with facility visit and superintend all the settlements in the reservation. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AMOS REED, Cl&k of Swperintendency. Eon. J~mesD UANBD~TY, Superintendent of Indihn Affairs, Utah Territory. Eztradf?om E. D. Berthoud's goumal of his t&p from Denver Oity to Utah lake, by J. D. Doty. , In the month of July, 1861, the Central Overland Mail Company fitted out an expedition under the command ef Mr. Berthoud, known as one of the best engineers in the Pike's Peak gold region, with the old mountaineer, Major Bndger, as guide, for the purpose of exploring a new route for a road from Den-ver City to Salt Lake City. This route lay westward by the sources of the Blue and Yampah rivers, and through the Colorado and Uintah valleys. ',Leaving Denver," he says, "the night of the 6th of July we encamped at the foot of the mountains, at Golden City. On the 7th we apcended the moun-tains ove'r the wagon road already established, and encamped that night on Clear creek. The 8th we passed through the ClearCreek mining region, Idaho, and Emp~reC ity, and encamped on Clear creek near the latter place--the most beautiful spot I have seen in the mountains. I t is situated near the head of Clear creek, in a heautiful valley, surrounded by magnificent mountains, caiions branching off in different directions, forming long vistas through which one sees in the distance the mountains of the Snowy range towering to.the skies, their summits clad in almost perpetual snow. "We resumed our journey on the 9th up Clear creek, and encamped at night on the summit of the Rocky mountains, in Berthou# s Pass, fifty-five miles from Denver. There was no snow in the pass, hut we onld see it in the ravines on either side, a thousand feet above us, with streams of water, like threads of silver, running from it to feed the numerons streams which head in the Snowy range. Waters which flow to the Pacific and the Atlantic take their iise in the pass within a hundred yards of each other, in a beautiful prairie covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, interspersed with a great variety of flowers. "The next day we descended over a gentle incline into the Middle Park. On the morning of the 11th we were joined by Mr. Yial,,Indian agent of Western |