Show y headquarters PO powells EXPLORING expedition june 23 1873 editor balfor deseret news mews my last letter you must have undoubtedly received from gunnison arnival telling youlon our pur thip trip and our arrival kalat at that place while at gunnison i we were principally en engaged ged in bolle collecting acting birds biras of all kinds kinz king skinning and preserving them previous to taking them to washington Washing ton ten we left gunnison on the tho adof june tune juleon on our way to kanab and the gran grand wash of the colorado river on the ath we ire reached glen cove and encamped near sev ier ler bridge for a couple of days early in the evening some of Kanos Hanos hs tribe with squaws squads and papooses oses came from richfield bich Kich nield field and went in camp right beside us prof thompson induced them thein to tp stay the next day daywitt with us to tako take several pictures of them and their wig wigwams warns anekt day in tile the afternoon arter after noori mr J IL hillers hii Hit lers lens our photographer and myself a canyon earlyon directly north horth of richfield settlement where we stayed over night taking pictures early next no axt morning we returned on the eve of the ath to camp with about a half dozen splendid negatives jack knows his business and can hardly be bealby any other photographer in his line of business we left camp glen cove on the ath dinst and proceeded to marys vale where we arrived at noon of the esth and encamped in pine creek near bullion city callon canon we had one of the nicest camps there I 1 ever saw or have ever been in pine creek flows about inches of water with plenty of delicious trout reaching from une abne to six pounds in weight mr hillers and i d mr john H renshaw ren Een shaw draftsman went up above bullion and webster cities to take the pictures 0 of several magnificent falls nearly two hundred feet high bullion city and webster lio lie in ohio mining district here there are some very good mines in ohio district but ae the camp is pretty near desi deserted arted on account of no capital being here to work the mines there are at present only five miners in camp and they are all working pretty aretty hard the most prominent amongst these mines are the webster bully boband boy rand land niagara there are some of the finest ran ranches elles blies in this valley I 1 ever saw in this terr territory imry near ear the sevier bridge is the ranch of mr derkey he has one of tile the finest places in luls luis country with plenty of stock on it ahe the most of my ply work at this place was jhun hunting ting birds and their nests which prof Thomp thompson Wil wll identified and and preserved we left loft marysvale Marys vale on the instant had quite a nice trip and a good road to run over and andr arrived at Pang witch at about sundown an the tho we are ar e now encamped one mile from pa I 1 ng witch beside bemid 8 the sevier we intend staving here about three bit bir or four days lin and then moving on to we shall be in st george three weeks from now while here prof Thomp thompson son sou mr mh renshaw benshaw arnd arid myself will pay a visit to lake and probably take tako a stereoscopic picture of the country about there the major and his secretary mr jas pilling left your town on the ath dinst tor for washington on private business they were expected to be back again about july alst and ind then to proceed south |