2M SADDLE AND CAMP 



In the Upper Valley I came upon a light 

 prairie schooner and one forlorn man, who told 

 me that he and his partner, who were looking 

 for suitable land to locate and homestead, had 

 halted for noon, picketed one horse, turned the 

 two others which they had loose, and while 

 they were catching trout for dinner the picketed 

 horse had broken loose and all the horses had 

 disappeared when they returned from fishing. 



He "reckoned th' hull d outfit had lit out 



fer Ogden," where they came from, and his 

 "pardner was chasin' 'em ahoof." I had not 

 seen them. 



At the lower end of the valley are some re- 

 markable hot springs — quite as remarkable as 

 some of the lesser ones in Yellowstone Park. 

 One group of them covers several acres, and 

 side by side are springs of cold water and boil- 

 ing water. Steam escapes from several fissures 

 under considerable pressure and with much 

 noise. 



In the canon between the two valleys, where 

 the canon widens, a ranchman has run some ir- 

 rigation ditches, and here I saw a notice of 

 which the following is an exact literal tran- 

 scription: 



"Parteys or Parson Driven Sheep over this Ditch and Damas it 

 they Will be Prasicute a carden to Law." 



