and not unfrequently lose all their earnings In this way. 



These Chinamen have the characteristic look of their nation, the tawny color and 

 peculiar eve.; shave the hair clear around to the top of the head, giving a peculiar 

 erfeet to the forehead, and let the balance fall behind"... a tail or phut. Their foreheads 

 are retreating; eyes, hazel ; wear wide pants and ordinary hickory (check) shirts. 



To proceed with ronte. At China Town we hear off somewhat from Carson River, 

 one mile bringing us to forks of road; right leads to Johnstown, i.5 miles oiV in Gold 

 Canon. Six miles farther" up, in a branch of ( jold ( 'anon, are the Dew rich gold-dig- 

 gings referred to above. All along- this emigrant-route, ever since we struck it, the 

 bones of oxen attest the effects of the old Humboldt ronte, on account of poisonous 

 water and grass along the Humboldt and desert, in destroving stock. 



Four miles from China Town, cedars 15 to L><> feet high appear on either side 

 Of the road on the mountains and in the vallev-the first we have seen since Leav- 

 ing the Se-day-e Mountains. Seven and one-half miles farther brings us to Carson 

 City, in Eagle Valley, at the east foot of the Sierra Nevada, where, at f, p. in., we 



with snow, and looking line, covered as it is with tall pines from base to summit— a 



>VU Carson City lias about a dozen small frame houses; two stores— Major Ormsby 



irrigation. The location is a good one, on account of its proximity to the new diggings 

 in Gold Canon, (said to be the richest yet discovered,) about 7 miles off, and its 

 commercial relations with Hones- Lake and other valleys to the north. I am informed 

 that this same system of fertile valleys King between spurs imm the Sierra Nevada, 



of Jwsvallrx!" K''ad'i..-day. evrept over a c„uple of sl„ughs of narrow^ idth, good. 



Crane, the tinner delegate to Washington 'in behalf of the claims of that section of 

 country to a new Territory (Nevada), to be taken off from the western portion of 

 Utah, was present. 



Jam 12, Ca m > X». :17, Car** City, /%/, I VA„.-Altitude above the sea, 4.o*7 

 feet. This morning at sunrise an overcoat not unpleasantly warm. Thermometer at 

 5 a. m., U\ This camp-ground beautiful; the prospect the most pleasing and 

 Eastern-States-like of any I have seen. It reminds me of a pastoral landscape ol the 



.!rass sufficient to show on your boots. 



' Par mimithesr.—yiv. Ueese, who has repeatedly been over the old route by way 



of Humboldt R 



. water in tin 





