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assistant adjutant-general. It contains an abundance of the finest kind of grass, and 

 is covered with cedars. Its geological formation js igneous. r l lie springs near us arc 

 represented by the good Indian as having been made by some horse-thievea (white 

 men) about a year and a half ago. 



Our route to-day was across a divide about a mile from last camp, and thru down 

 a canon, to within a mile of Sevier Lake Desert on southeast side of these mountains. 

 and then up a ravine across the crest again of the mountain to the north slope ot canon, 

 leading down to Salt Lake Desert, or Sevier Lake Desert, as the dividing rim is scarcely 

 perceptible. Road good. Journey, 5.6 miles. 



This evening, about 9 o'clock, we had a shower ot rain, accompanied withprettj 

 severe thunder and lightning. The party driving the herd to water has a dark night 

 of it 



July 31, Camp No. 31, Good Indian Spriw,.— Longitude. IKS oC :\i\"j latitude, 3!> 

 46' 09"; elevation above the sea, o,771 feet: thermometer at 8.30 a. m., 7* . * a have 

 been enabled to water, during the night and this morning, the weak mules that have been 

 left behind of the herd that was driven off yesterday evening. Some of them drank as 

 many as 9 bucketfuls, and yet stuck around the spring until they wore driven away. One 

 of them, Sergeant Barr informs me, actually drank, in the course ot a couple ot hours, 

 as many as 14 bucketfuls before he was satisfied. The truth is. on these dry deserts 

 the whole system of man and beast becomes so arid and depleted, on account ot the 

 dry and, therefore, evaporating power of the air upon the fluids ot the body, as to 

 require not only a sufficiency of water to satisfy the ordinary demands ot thirst, ait 

 to supply the dessication of the whole system from this cause. 



The wagon which was left at our last camp was brought in today. Several ot 

 the mules, in their anxiety to get water, got mired in the mud-spring, and had to be 

 hauled out. At 1 p. m. Stevenson, Sanchez, and the son of the good Indian, who 

 had been their guide, came in, and reported they reached the south end of Rush 

 Valley yesterday at 12 m, where Pete left them for Camp Floyd. Stevenson reports 

 in the direction of our route ahead of us water and grass at convenient distances, and the 

 pass across the Guyot range, to the more southern portion ot Lush A allev, practical, e. 



Mr Reese returned this afternoon, and reports that the herd last night, during the 

 thunder-storm, and in the darkness of tins night, in a thick grove ot cedars, got ser- 

 rated, and, while the strong animals, under him and the good Ind.an, pushed toman 

 and reached the water about 14 miles distant, the weak one- had lagged behind and 

 haJ ™X anther direction to find water. He thinks they will be joined together 

 ao-ain to-day and be driven back to-morrow. 



At 7 p m. the good old Indian, crippled as he is, came in and discovered^ by MS 

 words and gestures that though he was very much fatigued, yet he had a good heart 

 woias an g that h . s hel legsness was such as t0 make lt 



toward us H ^7J|^ > boday from his norse . He was taken off and carried to 

 necessary ^^^^m^ prepared for him. All hands feel grateful to 

 toiKTii^S^^ l He had permitted his son, who was his 

 him tor his extiaouni c v guide-party for several days, and 



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