Show 80 question: 8 Sublet present rendezvous vas in Cache Valley butvas but gave orders for all to renove to Salt Lake which We a few miles distant and then go to winter quarters accordingly moved to the mouth of ’’’Weaver’s Fork” and toestablished ourselves there When all were collected community numbered six to gether for the winter our two to three hundred consisting seven hundred souls (from of women and children ) In describing activities at the rendezvous Beckwourth states that a band of Snake Indians numbering some 2500 warriors later camped at the rendezvous This would account for the grand total of some 3200 population there at that time Since the Great Salt Lake was fed by three relatively large streams (Bear 'Weber Jordan) and several smaller streams along the northeast east and southeast shores Our streams assumed animals it was rich in beaver and other that the west side and other parts of the unexplored fur-beari- ng shore would also contain similar beavpr streams Hence it decided to dispatch an exploring party to circumnavigate the lake in bullboats to determine its extent and to locate Another factor any possible beaver streams flowing into it was of course to determine whether or not there vas an ouwas the mythical Buenaventura Trappers had dreamed of shipping furs down this mythical stream It was shovn on all the maps although no civilized tlet to the sea or elsewhere 8 T wourth 93 D Bonner Life and Adventures of James P Beck |