of scrub . 

 about 10 i 



>e, on the Salt Lake 

 ilea The route, also 



at 6 a. m., 54°.5(). Aftei 

 keep up the astronomical < 



for San Francisco, 2tfO miles distant, via Plaeerville and Sacramento, at 8 a. m., 

 Major Dodge. Expect to be absent about 12 days, during which our animal, 

 party will be able to recruit. Besides the three Pi-Utes mentioned yesterda : 

 Major has with him his interpreter, Dick, a lad about 15 years of age, and as 1 

 a boy as I have seen for a long while. The major takes a great deal of inter* 

 him/and looks after his welfare as if he were his own son. We all go mount* 

 take one pack-mule, the mule I ride, as well as a share of the pack-mule, having 

 kindly tendered to me by the major. 



Our course lay for a short distance up Carson Valley, or southwardly on old 

 In 1.5 miles from Genoa, pass Warm Springs, at foot of Sierra Nevada; 1.5 

 farther brought us to the Daggett trail, which we take over the east range o 

 Sierra Nevada to Lake Valley; th e traveled w agon-road which we have left c or 



Since my return to Washington, I find that Captain Many, in his " Prairie 1 ravelrr." lays down the distance in 

 Lake City to Reese's ranch (now Genoa) by this route as 774 miles. The case will then stand tuns, regard i 

 cnts-off I made on my return to Camp Floyd: 



From Salt Lake City to Genoa, according to Marcy *W 



From Camp Floyd to Salt Lake City (Simpson) 40 



Difference in favor of my shortest route i bota Camp Floyd. 



Difference in favor of my shortest route from Salt Lake City 



Difference in favor of my route over Chorpenning's - 



