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places, for rest, ou tbe route. Government stores freighted on such a Hue would cost, delivered at 

 Camp TollGate, 12J cents per pound for the freight, reckoning at the rate of 2J cents per pound 

 for every hundred miles, which would naturally he about the average contract price. At present 

 the contract price for freight via the mouth of the Colorado to Fort Mojave is 3g cents per pound, 

 and from thence by land to Camp TollGate 4J cents, making a total cost of transportation from 

 San Francisco of 8^ cents per pound. 



It is likely that more than two-thirds of the gross weight of commissary and quartermaster 

 stores that go into Arizona are^ purchased in San Francisco. In addition, then, to the 12^ cents 

 per pound, necessary to pay freight to Camp TollGate, would have to be added the cost of freight- 

 ing to some point on the Central Pacific Eailroad from San Francisco, or an addition of 2i cents, 

 making 1.5 cents per pound total cost. From this it clearly appears that supplies cannot be 

 forwarded ou any such line to posts in Northern Arizona, provided they are purchased in San 

 Francisco. 



The saving in cost of purchase in Chicago, and subsequent shipping to some point on the 

 Central Pacific Eailroad selected as a depot, are subjects upon which even approximate estimates 

 cannot be made, since the data are not at my disposal. There could be a saving made, after the 

 route is opened, by stopping recruits for Northern Arizona at some point on the railroad, and 

 having them march overland. This would come from the saving iu transportation from said point 

 on the Central Pacific Eailroad to Sau Francisco, and thence to Wilmington, Cal., via steamer-j-an 

 amount for each recruit of about $50, coin. We will suppose that there are four hundred recruits 

 X)er year to be distributed ; this would result in a saving of .$20,000. 



AGKICULTURAI. LANDS. 



These are so few in number and limited iu amount, that, although the Euby Valley meridian 

 has been carried to the south as far as the California boundary, still there have been very few 

 places at which sectionizing has yet been called for. Pahranagat Valley has been sectiouized by 

 these parties, and, upon our return to the vicinity of White Pine, they were at work surveying on 

 White Eivcr to tbe east of tlie mountains iu which the Grant district is situated. 



There is a strip lying contiguous to our easterly line that will call for surveys in the future. 

 These lands will be principally in Steptoe, Spring, Desert, Cedar, Eagle, Eose, IMeadow, and Clover 

 Valleys, also those upon the Muddy. 



MINERAL-BELTS. 



Through the section traversed there seem to be four distinct and well-defined miueral-belts, 

 following a general northerly and southerly course along prominent mountain-ranges. Tiie most 

 westerly of these commences on the north with the Diamond range, in which Mineral Hill and 

 Pinto Districts are found. In continuation of this range the Eureka District is encountered — a place 

 of note. Specimens of ore seen at Hamilton were very fine, and the bulk of legitimate reports 

 seem favorable. 



Going to the south, Morey and Hot Creek are reached, beiug iu the Hot Creek range. Eeveille 

 District is also due south, but in different mountains. Then comes a desert, unexplored strip, 

 unknown to white men, and but little inhabited by Indians. The old Amargosa mines lie in this 

 same southern trend ; also several districts in luyou County, California. 



Tlie next belt commences with tiie mines in the Humboldt range — the only ones of any interest 

 beiug iu the Cave District facing ou to Euby Valley. Along in order come White Pine, Grant, 

 Pahranagat, Tim-Pah-ute, Groom, Timber Mountain, and Yellow Pine, also the Clark District, to 

 the south of Yellow Pine and in California. 



Tlie third belt commencies at Egan Canon, and following the rauge of that name, contains the 

 Hercules and Eobinson Districts. Going due south the ranges are not so well defined, and nothing 

 is met with until El Dorado District is reached. It is believed that there are mineral-showings iu 

 the Egan rauge to the northward of Egan Canon, and before the railroad is reached. 



The fourth belt is found mainly iu the Schell Creek rauge. The first known are those in 

 Nevada District; then comes the Patterson, from whence the mountains bear a little to the east of 



