Show late from the retiring Ee tiring columns the second column of the troops ordered from tom camp floyd to new mexico consisting 0 of the ath infantry and companies AF and H loth infantry under command of lt col can bythan were to march by spanish fork kanyon to green river at the point where Lo lorings trail crosses that stream have as reported changed their course and proceeded via salt creek and sanpete valley soon after the orders for the march were issued a large company of sappers and miners were sent up the spanish fork to open a road over over oyer the divide between the waters flowing in ato to utah lake and those flowing into green river but it seems that it was a bigger job to make the road than was anticipated and consequently not completed by the time the troops were ordered to be on their way the result of which would have been a delay of the march of the column for some considerable time so ion lon long iong at least that it would have been impossible to reach fort garland by the of july if a change 0 of route bad not been made command that marched via the Timpa nomas 0 had some difficulty in g getting etting along ca in consequence inconsequence of the waters of that stream being too high for fording and a new road had bad to be he made over the hills BO so as to avoid the fords which caused some considerable delay in getting out of provo valley how many maby horses and mules the gang of thieves who came here with the army or soon afterward sand who have followed the marching columns away have stolen since they took up their line of march for the mexican frontier has not been report edwith the exception that on the arrival of the companies for laramie at bridger there were nine animals seven mules and two horses stolen in one night A continued nocturnal reduction in that ratio would soon be severely felt by troops on a march through an indian country with no greater amount of animals than those had haa who whop recently left camp floyd in using L the term Im marching archim 0 columns when speaking C of the fragmentary 0 portions of the army ordered from the department of utah to that of new mexico exico Al the phraseology used by the war department has been followed edana and no burlesque is intended in consequence odthe known sparseness of their ranks |