| Show NEW ROUTE TO THE SAN JUAN BLUFF san juan county utah april 1885 IW editor deseret news by request of apostle erastus snow on the of march three brethren and I 1 left iron county with our families to proceed to our homes at bluff city from where we had been absent six months by a new route via rabbit valley vailey thence to graves valley thence to the colorado river part pait of themay a distance of fifty miles there was no road excepting the track of two wagons arriving at the river we found bishop george brinkerhoff A M lyman and capt L P brown preparing a small ferry boat which was completed in two days clays afterwards we then crossed the river and continued our journey brinkerhoff and party being our pilots until we reached the halls haip s ferry road a distance of about forty five miles where they turned back leaving us within fifty miles of home which we reached on the loth of agli awil april having laving been in ilas silas S smiths company in the winter of 1879 and isso 1880 when it took 80 men five months to work their way to san juan and also having traveled on the two other routes nails halls halla upper ferry and by way of green and grand rivers I 1 am in a position to judge of the respective res active merits of the several roads we ve found tile the new route much better than the others and about 1 miles shorter than the green and grand rivers road a and aud n d well supplied liedwith with feed fuel and water the greater portion of the new nev road with a very little travel will become packed but of course there is some sand this route is far the best for tor driving stock the crossing on the colomeo Colo coio raco river is beautiful with nice bottoms on either cither side andrit and it is not at all difficult to get to and f from roin the river this route from rabbit valley to the san juan can be traveled with perfect safety lu in the winter season anyone any one desiring bestrin to fo go from utah to southern colomac colorado new mexico or eastern arizona wili will will wiil ed fond find this their nearest and best route J F BARTON |
