| Show JOURNEY TO ASHLEY minnie maud or nine mile crt cr ek is forty throe miles out from price this is our first day dand the second day from home we have gone over rough rocky canyons parsing up soldier canyon twenty four miles where we cross the brook mountain range this rubb to green river biver after which we pass PAN down nine mile creek the latter forms a junction with argyle creek six bix miles above broek brockb 18 ranch president woodruffs Woodruff Ps son piloted us safely over the the first eighteen miles of our journey today was a barren one uninteresting and very dusty at the end thereof we came upon a small ranch tills this ranch is occupied by mr winn and the next by mr taylor and the third by mr argyle from whose ranch the muddy stream derives its name we lunched under the shadow of a rook which had become detached from the main ledge and computed its weight at lbs ibs millions of tons of excellent building rock walls in the deep canyon in a variety of thick nesses while piles are broken from the main ledges much of which is ready for use without the masons chisel to lay up into buildings sights were full of interest and furnish ample research for geologists the great variety of S strata T and of rock slate clay etc laid bare for hundreds of feet afford food for deep reflection we rested for the night at brocks brock s ranch the stream at this point has enlarged into a roaring volume of water which after a distance of twenty live five emilei finds iab way into green river we were oil shown hown some little baskets taken from the ancient cliff dwellers houses built high up in those nearly perpendicular cular cliffs marks of fortresses are yet to be seen as well as pottery taken from those ancient snugly built dwellings on the morning of the third day from home our friendly guide J james ames H glines of vernal conveyed us to fort duchesne bridge some thirty six miles we pass windsor castle which stands about feet high and then soon arrive at edinburgh castle passing up to the summit seven miles we enter uinta county and as we mount the divide a truly scene meets our view the jand reen river mountains to our east ita inta reservation studded with cedars and pinion pine slopes from the divide to the east west and north we were surrounded by snowcapped snow capped mountains passing over the various benches to the river duchesne Duc besne which is feet wide and at the bridge flows at the rate of more than 2000 gallons of water per minute we rest for the night at this spot forty five miles from ashley the other end of our journey fi E STEVENSON i RANCH wasatch county may ath 1890 |
