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Show Professor Hatden's Explorations. Explora-tions. We had a call on Thursday from Professor F. V. Hayden, United States Geologi.it, who is engaged in geological explorations of the Territories, Terri-tories, for w!. oh an appropriation was made by Congress. The Professor left Cheyenne on the Tth of August last, and went by way of Fort Fettcrman and the Sweetwater, prosecutiix; his scientific researches through the Sweetwater Sweet-water valley, the South Pass region and the Wind Eiver valley, taking in a bolt of country to the north of the U. P. R. E. Ho then crossed to G reen river; and, making the old emigrant road his base line, he explored and made collections in the region of Black's fork, Henry's fork, around Fort Bridger, on the Bear river, ,and along the wholo northern slope of the Uintah range of mountains. He then passed down Henry's fork to Green river, and down the river to Brown's Hole; up G reen river again to the old emigrant route; up Bitter Creek valley val-ley by way of Bridger's Pass, and on to Cheyenne, which he reached on the 1st of November, taking in a belt of country to the south of the U. P. E. B. On the way from Bitter creek to Cheyenne Chey-enne he crossed the Laramie plains by the Medicine Bow mountains, continuing con-tinuing his researches. He then dis tributed tho most of his party and teams, and took the U. P. cars to return re-turn west and take in a third belt of country, along the line of the railroad. rail-road. His successes in geology, mineralogy min-eralogy and natural history have been very gratifying, and greater than in any former trip; while not an accident occurred oc-curred during the whole of it. In the course of his explorations he tested the soils with a good deal of eare, on the sides of the mountains as well as in the valleys, and found them all to contain con-tain the elements of great fertility,only requiring irrigation. His collections, sketches and photographs are very numerous; and the artist accompanying accompany-ing him has made sketches of the surface sur-face formation of about 10,0u0 square miles of country. He continues along the C. P. E. E. some distance and then returns to Washington to coai- plete his preliminary report, which will be published next January by Congress, Con-gress, and will contain an extended report re-port of the agricultural resources of the Territories, particularly of Utah, prepared by Mr. Thomas. NexLspring the Professor expects to fit out in Salt Lake for the continuation of his scientific scien-tific investigations, and from his labors we look fur a vast amount of most interesting in-teresting and valuable information being be-ing prepared concerning the Great Basin and Salt Lake Valley. The above was in type for yesterday morning, but was crowded out by a press of other interesting matter. |