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Show APPENDIX H. 515 SS No. of Camp. Engleman's Creek Lieutenant Putnam's Creek Do. South Fork Rock Creek Do Do. Sinks Spring-water kegs should be filled for 2 days. Camp from this in alkaline flat Gibraltar Gate Creek joins Gibraltar Creek Middle-Gate Spring West Gate Dry wells; alkaline valley; very poor camp; water and grass alkaline, and little of either. Rabbit-bush fuel Creek connecting the two lakes of Carson. - Road can be shortened some eight or ten miles by striking across the head of Alkaline Valley after getting about nine miles from Camp 30, and then proceeding directly to the shore of Carson Lake. It is not necessary to go so far north as the connecting creek referred to J Leave Carson Lake Walker's River Do. do Do. North Bend Small spring, not sufficient for a large com-) mand; grass i mile south ) Carson River Do. do • •• Pleasant Grove; cross Carson River and get) into Old Emigrant Road. Mail station . ./ China Town. Gold diggings Carson City. East foot of Sierra Nevada Genoa. Do. do. do 1-6 8-6 2-7 3 3-1 1-7 5-4 0-6 4-2 3-2 3-5 21-0 10-2 8-7 14-7 24-5 16-6 393- 401-7 9-7 21-5 14-1 1-9 3-0 9-0 7-4 11-6 12-9 416-4 440-9 31-2 10- 6-3 19-0 9-0 19-0 12-9 457-5 488-7 498-7 505- 524- 533- 552- 564-9 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 s,w w w w s,w Rab. bush Dry rush W W W W S,W W W W G G R,G R,G G G G G (Signed), J- H. SIMPSON, Capt. Top. Engineers. To Brevet Major F. J. Porter, Assist. Adj. Gen., Dept. Utah, Camp Floyd. n . DESCRIPTION OF THE MORMON TEMPLE. [Extracted from the Desere't News.] THE following is a brief detail of the temple, taken from drawings in my office in GThe west a nTde c'omntpai^nBs S10' i asc 4re0s .r odTs hseq ucaernet,r e« *of *the« te^m ple is 1S56^ ffeeft i6 tinocn?e s aduuee wweesftt S ^ t t S r f t t o S l i n e o f the block. / ^ ^ r f l ^ ^ ^ K £ 186ifeet,includingtowers,andthewidth99feet. On theeastend thereare^threetow. en, 88 also on the west. Draw a line north and south I l t t J ^ 2 £ S » l the tower, andyouhave the north and south extent o f f ° f f - p t o b ™ ™ « « £ r « d i We depress into the earth at the east end to the depth of 16 feet and enlarge aii a r o u n d % Z l Z lines of wall 3 feet for a footing Thenorth.andML walls ar 8 feet thick clear of pedestal; they stand upon a footing of 16 * g ™ ^ * ™ e ing, which slopes 3 feet on each side to the height of 7* feet Theportingrttto towers rise to the same height as the side, and is one solid piece of masoniy ot lougn ashlars, laid in good lime mortar. |
