| Show pioche to san juan ST nev nov jan SO 1874 editor record captain john moss remained herewith here with me two days the and 2 while on his way from california to the san juan juin country I 1 asked him to give ue me a table of distances from st george to the rocky bocky mountains with wilh a diagram or of the farming and mining districts which I 1 forward you for publication the distances are as follows miles from st george to kanab to 70 kanab to lees ferry 70 HO ito lees leea ferry to navah nys 0 9 springs to limestone tanks 21 limestone tanks to rye bye grass 23 19 21 rye Ry Grass eGras to leea lees ranch banch 10 lees ranch to moon copple farm 8 10 fo 10 farm to sheep camp pinto creek 10 pinto creek to camp 12 camp to canyon spring 16 canyon spring to red buttes 12 aw red buttes to pinyon tanks it 14 pinyon tanks to plute pluto canyon 8 plute canyon to robinson tanks 10 1 2 robinson tanks to corn patch 8 corn patch to bonito canyon queto 23 bonato canyon to moss crossing sanjuan san juan 28 up esp the river from moss cut Crt Esing 35 thence to fork 14 fork to caso case camp 32 case camp camato to ute ranch 8 ute ranch nanch to dolores river 10 dolores river ulver to west fork ot of the malcot 6 6 1 18 itt IT the tho h 0 distance from phocbe Pio choto cheto to st george a 10 loo 0 m miles llesi llesp making the entire distance amm rom h hero ero ere to the san juan countr country I 1 by the moss route 57 miles ed Jl browd ecord rf moss says there is good grass gram and water the entire route gold he say sayd 3 is found on the dolores miguel and Una Uha weep tributaries tributa ries of the grand river and the dianco mancos la plata and animas tributaries tributa ries of the san juan river the best prospects are pre on the small mountain streams emptying into the animas and la plata rivers the best time to get into luto the tho country s during the month of may the rocky mountain at the heads of the he dolores and mancos come to a with a V the waters of the grand and san juan rivers rivera being separated by a low ridge the del norte heads in the extreme end of ef the V from the san juan to the grand river biver there are no mountains to cross crow if you cross the mountains from either the san juan on the south or the tho gra grand ud on the north you come right into the valley ot of the del norte moss has a company of nine men with him and one six bix horse wagon loaded with blacksmiths tools mining tools etc etc they a also aiso Is 0 have llave sixteen saddle horses he will travel the route indicated in the table of distances and will coall go all ali the way through with a wagon moss came over this same route last fall while on his way to california no snow was found on that route his statements are corroborated ro by a man well known here and at las vegas ranch and ivanpah ivannah Ivan pah who was with him last year belden and bricht Se start with a four mule team tomorrow to join moss at st george they are taking farming tools seeds etc fry and his family late of bul li onville leave here with belden d destination e sti nation san juan nearly all of the muddy settlers are sooner or later going to the san juan country mr cullum from illinois brother of ex congressman cullum left salt lake bake on the lust destination muddy reservation occupation boss farmer the indians are very short of grub the money that was to have baen appropriated in buying them food having been spent in transporting agents deputy agents farmers cooks and old trunks to and frog from salt lake dr shops bishops mare passed pawed hero here a few days since at least I 1 took it to be her the tiie rider of ald paid aid mare mar boasted at the ferry of having hired the animal at John johnstons stoWs stable re he also stated that he had a partner by the name of thatcher who was as some two weeks in advance of him that lie he also had two stolen animals I 1 recollect of seeing him pass here about that time one of the animals was a black or dark brown in pioche record |
