52 EXPLORATIONS ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 



the first Indian we have seen on our route. His squaw is a Go-shoot woman, and he lives 

 among that people. Gave him his dinner and some tobacco. Had a sketch of him taken. 

 He wears his hair tied up at the temples and behind; carries a buckskin pouch and 

 powder-horn; a bow mid ipiiver swung on his right side; wears a pink checked Amer- 

 ican shirt, buckskin leggins and moccasins, and a blanket around bis loins; an old black 

 silk handkerchief is tied about his neck. He has one huge iron spur on his right heel, 

 and rides a sorrel pony. His height is 5 feet 7 .J inches; has a stout square frame; 

 age, probably, 35; carries a rifle. His bow is .'5 feet long, and is made of sheep's horn; 

 arrow, 25 inches long, feathered, and barbed with iron. His countenance is ordinarily 

 sardonic, but lights up in conversation, and shows as much intelligence as Indians do 

 ordinarily. 



This evening, just at dark, two six-mule teams, belonging to the mail company, 

 came in from Ruby Valley, and, after watering, continued on to Fish Springs. Took 

 them five days to make the trip, they King over one day. Report the road worked 

 through to Ruby Vallev, and the mail-sra U e is to run the next trip as far as the station 

 in that valley from Camp Floyd. Heretofore it has run only as far as Simpson's 

 Spring; from that point to the Humboldt River the mail has been carried on pack- 

 mules.. 



May 9, Camp No. 7, Sulphur Sprint/.— Longitude, 113° 46' 19"; latitude, 39 : 40' 36". 

 Altitude above the sea, 4,(583 feet. The forage brought by the three teams from Cam]) 

 Floyd being about expended, they left this morning on their return to the post. 

 Morning bright and clear. Thermometer at 5 a. m., 37°.25. Resumed march at 25 

 minutes of G, and shaped our course south of west for a wide pass through the Go- 

 shoot Mountains, which we commence ascending in 4.5 miles. In (J miles" more you 

 reach the east summit (altitude above the sea, 0,903 feet), by a tolerable grade, and 

 thence, in 2.5 miles, descend, by a good o T; ,de, to Pleasant Valley, where we find an 

 abundance of grass and plenty of water.' A mile more brought us to the sprin- the 

 copious source of the stream which runs eastvvardlv through the vallev into a large 

 valley, which I call Crosman Vallev, after Lieut. Col. Ceorge II. Crosman, deputy 

 cpaartermaster-general and chief of 'the quartermasters department in the '.Military 

 Department of Utah. This stream (Pleasant Valley Creek) has a width of 12 feet, is 

 5 feet in depth, of sandy bottom, and has a rapid current. The water is of a verv 

 pure, wholesome character. Near the spring we encamp, after a march of 13.4 miles. 

 At this point is a mail-station, a log house. The mail companv lias done a <>reat deal 

 of work in the pass we have just come through, in removing rocks, filling up gullies, 

 and making side cuts. 



AVe have to-day seen a number of Co-shoot Indians. They aremost wretched- 

 looking creatures, certainly the most wretched I have ever seen, and I have seen great 

 numbers in various portions of our country. Both men and women wear a cane made 

 of strips of rabbit-skins, twisted and dried, and then tied together with strings, and 

 drawn around the neck by a cord. This cape extends to just below the hip, and is 

 but a scant protection to the body. They seldom wear leggins or moccasins, and the 

 women appear not to be conscious of any impropriety in exposing their persons down 

 to the waist Children at the breast are perfectly naked, and this at a time when over- 



