| Show FROM FORT BRIDGER TO 10 THE kellow tellow yellowstone S TO NE A CV C send gelt R ite jle I 1 1 the helena gazette gazelle a brief account of a trip from fort Bridger to the 4 yellowstone the tile party left bridger on or th the of june juno last and an consisted of tile the follow following ng xvi ye Y e A jones captain F As A it command of expedit expeditious ion iou jarc rc 1 C 1 11 1 L parry botanist t and meteorologist J D putnam As assistant sistan t professor lofessor r comstock Com stoc geologist panli paul L hardy chief chiet Topo topographer c graphe louis ouis von Frobin bughi engineer e er 6 bitt dol do fred bond do blunt lath infantry As astronomer nier deo george rap 33 jewett e we tt odometer badome 11 G H hitt witt hitt clerk clarh C crary and ifred Willai willard il general as assist luts lo 10 engineer and a braeg brace bracq of sale sable as gents aho vho officiated d a as cooks cools The escort consisted of Com company parly 1 ad ca cavalry alry Captai captain nH H E NO noyes yes comman commanding dink ats hall nail dd and kingsberry ajr dr eigeman hh 0 eman was attached to til the e expedition as surgeon and R lj H young ath infantry as quartel master ster charles charles charies ci urtis lizs lias f master blaster of transportation with ten teri p packers ac k e r added to this tili entile number were fifteen shoshi Shosho or snake indians u used aed ked as gui gul desand 4 scouts the expedition advanced to a die ale the sweetwater thence ten milea to south pass city once a town of inhabitants now abo abb thence four miles 0 to o atlantic city also decayed thong h tile the ilou houses ses are good and the people arm are waiting for bom hom something ething to turn three miles to camp stambaugh a two company post col brackett second iee ond CaK cavalry alry airy comm commanding tiding thence two miles to io iline miners rile ribe le light also gone down hill thence ba forty jorty nive five mi miles lesto to camp bravn r ij 61 on little litile wind ll river diver iver lver ho tho agency for the snake indians india ris in in one ot of the most beautiful of valleys two miles niiles from acom thi this s fort is a large medicinal hot spring and three miles malv from the tho fort i isk ISA a spring c of if pure asphalt IQ P h a I 1 L the party ert left camp brown with forty pack mules july 10 for big wind river which they corded forded then tilen marched northwester north wester ly passed successfully owl creek mountain and its three streams crossed gray bull river and its 16 mountains then marched to the thai south fork of the etl eti thence up the north horth fork of the kingwater Stin thence over iho tho divide between stinking ahei atel atei and mud nud lake thence around mud lake to pelican creek thence th ence to the place where tile the lake forms th the e lower teli tell 0 astone thence alo the east aas fork of the tho Yellow crossed the river on bamon Baron hetts i bridge thence to the lyl mammoth a S springs on gardeners river thence to fort FN E ilis lils for supplies thence south to p the yellowstone L lye ake wip wis 3 thence to the 06 fire hole basin 03 or wonderland thence over che cho lle ile lie snake river divide thence oyer over the y yellowstone 0 N v to lle ile an and d wind niver river dh divide mhd etil t thence 1 i evi esi e do down rn the wind river rimer to camp campb own rown the correspondent says botill of ail all this reach of country pou that from froni wind river in the smart to wind niver river r on the return thi party did not get a pro prospect speet of the tho smallest kind of either gold or silver quartz scarcely even getting a color in streams or on bars along the entire route taio talo country is iq CO composed almost entirely of metamorphic rock the sand and gravel or streams and bars burs being fine and loose he says there ij i nothing in this country that will pay any of our montana miners miner sto to quit their claims for 11 he further says that in his travels he be has noticed all tho the principal pointe along the line of the tile railroad and inland and although helena helenn may arnay be dullard dull duli and hion Alon montana talla talia generally duller yet in ia dullness they athey wiil will not col eol compare n pa M with vit h the tho other towns he be hasi had visited certainly not noty with ith the sweetwater towns peru pru now possesses a rail rall wayme ro ross theander the andes which is represented to bo be the tho great greatest cIt ent modo mode modern iny int triumph of engineering skill ass passing from the sea ses coast directly over the moun mountains tallas into the interior ascends by a lor lot los ios dries of remark ably easy dmd grades and beautiful curves to the highest point ever over reached by a locomotive alid arid through some of the finest scenery neiT nelt f the south amell Ameil american cau eau mountain 1 regions egions eg ions iona uw |
