Show DEEP CREEK DISTANCES A person traveling over the desert west of f suit salt lake city needs to know the distances and nd character of the stopping placey places to supply apply this need deed I 1 append some notes note taken on a recent trip to deep creek there are several routes that can be taken from salt lake the usual one is by way of the 0 S L R R to terminus where the regular deep creek stage starts this route passes through stockton st john johnsony johnson s pass simpsons Simp sons spring durway dugway dug way pass fish springs carnely carneys Car burnt station and ibapah another route is is by way of following lowin the 0 S L K R R to the old mill and then striking westward to Grants grantsville ville and add around the north end of the aqui grants ville mountains this route does not have to pass over the steep johnson s pass and is used by heavily loaded teams it connects with the other route at scribners since it goes I 1 oes due south after it Z geta crets around the north ond end of the mountains till it reaches the other road this route is slightly sli 11 ditl y farther than the other A third route is by way of the 0 S L R R to the first switch beyond lewiston and then west to vernon government pass and connects with the stage route at simp sons ons spring this is dotso not 0 o steep steel on the pass as the one over johnsons pass on the eastern side but it is bad on the other side much worse than johnsons johnsona pass taking the regular stage route and beginning nin with the temple corner it is three and three fourths miles to senior s thence to the oab joab lawrence ranch one and one fourth miles next railroad switch three and three i fourth miles railroad crossing two and five tight eight 11 miles riter P 0 one fourth mile spencer s one and one sixteenth miles cave ranch onland one and seven sixteenth miles kesslere Kess lers itne half balf mile black rock three and one eighth miles garfield five eighths mile lake point one and three fourth miles or twenty two and one eighth miles from the city E T store three fourths mile grantsville Grants ville crossing three and one fourth miles tooele thoele nine miles stockton six and seven eight miles st john ei eight 1 lit and three fourth miles milea or fifty and three fourth miles from the city up to this place there is plenty of rood good water teed feed and stabling at all times all along the route from st john it is two and one half miles to buchs bushs place where all conveniences can be had altitude feet from here the line begins to climb the mountains over a good road and is among white cedars most of the way to the top of the pasa it is two and one fourth miles to the mill altitude feet thence it is three and seven eighth miles to the top of the pays pass johnson s altitude 03 feet there is no water for the last two miles the road is very good r all the way except that for a few hundred yards it is rather steep for a loaded team it is tw two i 0 and one half miles down to cottonwood spring a little sandy in places cottonwood is a pleasant place a small ranch where vegetables can sometimes be had and occasionally hay but no grain plenty of wood and the finest water here the traveler if he be wants fine water to drink must fill up his keg for lie ho will find no good water for fifty miles though water for his boock can be found it is about half a mile below before the water gives out and very heavy sand be beins begins 0 ins which is three spokes deep for about it a mile about one half a mile below cottonwood the road forks the regular stage route going south to the next ranch and thence to Simp sony spring the stage route is the one to take in wet weather but it is about fifty miles longer we will follow the same route however and go 0 o straight ahead for nine and one eighth miles to scribner s which is au an abandoned ranch on the flat and near some wacer holes which have springs I 1 in them the only grass liere here is salt grass which is eaten close all the year the water is tramped full of mud by stock and the spring has to be cleaned out before the water is fit to drink the only fuel is sagebrush the altitude of cottonwood is feet scribner y s is about feet from Froin scribner athe s the road goes south for about three miles when it forks one fork going on boath and connecting with the road to simpsons Simp sons spring and the other turning off to the right and going to government well tb this is fork we will take we go ro over a long iono swell passing through some small patches of sand and then down a lono long I 1 slope with pretty heavy sand for a mile and a half soon after we ascend another slope in heavy sand and then reach the desert slope which has several patches of heavy sand but not long ones the total sand is ia probably four miles at the bottom of this slope alope we come out on the level desert which is all clay and a line fine road in dry weather but v very ery bad in wet weather it is seventeen miles to government well from scribners after reaching the desert it is seven or eight miles to the well there is nothing to mark tile well and a person might get within a hundred yards of it and not see it fitisoff it is off the road about half a mile to the north and is reached by a well beaten road which brandies branches from the main road like a railroad Y it is ia the only right hand branch at the well there is no mistaking it as there are abundant signs of camping there the well is about eight 11 feet deep ix is cribbed crabbed up and has three barvels barrels in it into which the artesian water flows flown the water is nearly fresh the salt taste is scarcely discernable discernible discern able there is no grass or fuel here and a more desolate place can hardly be imagined ama ined from government well three roads branch off after you get back to thu the main road the one going duo due west goes croes to the north end 0 granite the next one to the south moes south west to dugway and the last one goes nearl south to simpsons Simp sons spring taking takina thi tb granite road it is ia nineteen and three fourth mi lesto the road which I 1 goes goes u up i p a can canyon y an ta t granite spring where most travelers stop I 1 is almost a level road with but one patch 0 bad sand hand about yards long the rest of thi road is hard bard clay and and very bad in wet wel weather but in dry irv weather it is as hard as a floor when near the granite mountains a road branches off to the south and goes 5 to dugway with one or two right hand branches going up from it to springs in the mountains after passing this road and going due west there are two other left hand branches going to springs in the same range the water in each case is one olle half to one and a half miles milea up ill in the canyons the granite spring 1 I the last one is one and one half miles up and a very steep ascent too tye the road that reaches this s known b by y an old can placed at the forks by being a little past the middle of the north end of the mountains and only two and three fourth miles from the extreme northwestern w stern end of the range 11 there is plenty of fine wood water and 11 grass grass here from the northwestern western end of the range it is two miles milea to the western edge of the sand ridge where most of the vegetation ends thence it is twenty four miles across the desert always keeping tile the right hand road to good ground at the end of granite range a road strikes off to the southwest toward fish aprin sprin springs and near the western edge of the desert another 11 goes oes off to the left which strikes reddin redding spring the main right hand road goes straight toward clifton this desert road is ia bad any time in the year and impassible for loads in wet weather there are many miles milea without a living thing growing on the desert from the edge of the desert it is about six miles to clifton and eleven and three fourtha miles to wilsons Wil sons soDs cabin or dutch mountain the elevation of the desert is feet wil sons cabin about feet on the return trip some measurements measurement were made gold till hill pass is feet altitude I 1 if its is four miles down from tile the pass to the last big ruck rock in the canyon going east and six nulls milus to the foot of the hill it is ii nineteen and one half miles to carneda Car neya from carneys carleys Car it is eight and add three oliree fourth miles by the shortest way to the old stone station and twelve miles to where the fisli fish I 1 springs road leaves for the camp thence it is one and eleven sixteenths miles to the well on the flat thence three miles to the point of the fish springs mountains thence two and one fourth miles to the bi big spring where good water salt grass and little fuel can be ba had there is wood on the mountain near by however thence it is two and three fourth miles to reeds place thence one and one fourth miles to the next house thence one mile to the last water thence four and one half miles to black rock bock thence three and three fourth miles to the dugway I 1 forks the right hand road going over the dugway range and being the main stage line thence irleand tree and five eight miles to the salt hole here water endurable to horses hordes is found here is no do wood and only a very verv little salt aalt 1 rass here from the salt hole it is live and airee h roe fourth miles milea to the first point on the agway mountains thence two and seven eighth miles to the next point and one mile I 1 arther to the last point here there are airee ahree forks one going aroln north to granite one south or southeasterly toward p spring and the middle one going boing north last ast to government well it is on this last oad six and one half miles to the slough where water is found in a 1 I sink most of the year th there ere is no grass nor fuel 1 here ere except the desert shrubs from the slough it is ia eleven and one font fourth th miles to government well there is no feed nor fuel fue 1 between reed s and scribner s on this route and no good water between near reeds reed and government well most of the road haq haj ablay a clay soil boil which is bad in wet weather but this is the shortest route on the stage route from fish springs there is ia no water from the springs to simpson s spring MARCUS 21 ARcus E TONES jones |