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Show COLORADO SUPERIKTEXDENCY. 235 range of mountains. At no place is it momthan a half mile wide nntil you approach its head, and much of the way there is little more than room enough for a road beside the stream. This stream is very muddy, and the water near its head looks green, like the water of the'sa. As you descend, it c h a n p i t a color to that of milk, in consequence of thepemliar white ssnd adjacent to the stream. The " cation" through which it runs k i n many places very deep. The rock.rises above the stream some fifteen hundred or two thonsand feet, and isof the fineat order of sandstone, resembling what i s called the New England "pri- ' mary sandstone." Some layers of it are varieg ikd, having the colors white, light red, and blue. It is the most beautiful specimen of sandstone I have ever. seen. As wedescended within about thirty miles of the month, we were com-pelled to leave the river at a hend known as "Cottonwood Camps," and crossed. over a divide. As we ascendedfrom tlte bed of the river, a little to onr left, we discovered an immense coal bed of the finest quality of bituminous coal; it apparently is as hard a8 the anthracite, hut has a clear, brilliant blaze-so firm is it that it will not blacken a white handkerchief in rubbing it, neither does. it emit that bituminous odor usual for such coal. We had on various occasions before this discovered beds of lignite. I am satided this is superior to any other discovered in this countly. This sandstone range south of White river-iB entirely bare; not a thing green is to be seen on the mountains. The top of the range is so broken and hare that it gives the mountain the appearance of an immense city in ruins, with Darts of the walls and chimnevs still standine-: It luoks as if ft might have bet,; the work of' but yeat~rday: so naked is it, and, aictr the tirst view, it in n sad sight ratbc:r than a circoing one. Jt reminds one furcibly of the weakness of man,aud the immense Dowrr of the combination of the eleients of natnte. L We struck the White liver again just before it enters the Green. The conrse of the Green is nearly south, hearing a little west; it rises in the Cumherland range of mountains far, far to the north. It has forced its way through the. Wahsatch mountains and sandstone mange, and empties its waters into the ses. I t is the great rivw of the mountains, and araina a country but little less in extent than the Father of Waters. Its course is throngh conqinnous ranges of. mountains and deserts of sand; hence it hasno valley of importance. In this articldar it is unlike the Mississippi. We crossed the Green, and went np the tintah valley some twenty miles. This valley runs nearly east and west, bear-ing a little north of west, up Lake and Dncltene's fork of the Uintah and over the Wabsatch mountains. These mountains are but little inferior to the Cor-dillera monrrtains, and of the same firrmation. On the top of these mountains we discovered one of the most beautiful parks the human eye ever beheld. Having passed this range of mountains we came into Poovo valley, which is settled by the Momons. In this valley is located the Indian farm established by Dr. Hunt. For the last two rears it has been in charge of A. Humplyeys. He has lct it all go to ruin, and it is now in the most wretched condition. I called on Mr. Humphreys, admade the demand designated by you. He replied. that he had been compelled to sell all the government property to maintain the Indians. Here I met the Indians who roam upon the western border of Colo-d o ; they are known as the Green and Grand river Utes. Whitc-eye is their principal chief; hie band consists of about eight hundred lodges, making over three thousand Indians in number. They have many complaints to make on account of the smcitJi of game; they have ,heen compelled to kill and eat many of their ponies. They say they have never received any presents from the government, and have never killed any white men. This was the second time they had visited the agency in Utah. Dr. Hunt &led them over, to talk with them, some years since. They are inclined to be peaceable, and appear to Ee in fear of offending the Great Father. Some of them followed the army from Fort Bridger, begging for bread, and got in some diEiculty with the soldiers; a few' |