| Show for the deseret newt news to california emigrants and the citizens z ns of utah territory the undersigned undersigner under signed is informed that there are many persons persona at salt lake city destined for california who are in doubt as to the route they should take he would inform orlia all such that by direction of general johnston be has within the past three months explored and our surveyed two new routes to california either of which ia is about miles shorter than the old humboldt or st marys river route and from all he can bear and has read incomparably better in in respect to wood water and grass indeed by this route the great salt lapedes La lake kedes deb desert is entirely avoided except at few points the best route is is that from camp gamp floyd through general johnstons pass and thence along the rim between the great salt lake desert and the sevier lake desert keeping generally from 25 to 40 miles south bouth of the general johns JohnE johneton tn and hastings pass road mr john reese Heese of genoa and bib his son have just come over the route with me and will be enabled and are ready to conduct any parties of emigrants or herds of animals which may be tending towards california the young man will doubtless be in the city at the time this notice nolice appears and mr john reese in the course of about twelve days as soon as he returns from an expedition under the direction of J L K south smith topi engineers who has been charged by gen geni johnston with the duty of improving I 1 mp roving the direction of the road within the last one hundred miles and at a particular spring the undersigned undersigner under signed is confident that this route will be f found from 25 to 50 per cent better than the old route and particularly fine for stock driving it has also the advantage of being a later fall and earlier spring route he will as soon as smith returns bave an itinerary of the route prepared setting forth the distances between the camping places and where wood grass and water can be found and will send it to the papers of the territory for publication thus tius itinerary it would be wel well I 1 for emigrants abd others interested in in the route to procure and keep J H SIMP SiM paoN tIoN I 1 capt corps topi engra camp floyd U T aug 7 1859 1839 |
