164: EXPLORATIONS ACEOSS THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 



August 8, Camp Floyd.— Gave Dr. Hobbs, agent of Russell & Co., an itinerary of 

 my inward route. He intends to send immediately over it a thousand head of cattle 

 to California. 



Lieutenant Hurry, by virtue of the following orders, is relieved from the com- 

 mand of the escort of my party: 



[Special Orders No. 67.] 



Headquarters Department of Utah, 



Camp Floyd, Utah, August 8, 1859. 

 Second Lieut. Alexander Murry, Tenth Infantry, being an important witness for the United States in a case before 

 the United States district court now in session in Salt Lake City, is relieved from the operation of paragraph 1, Special 

 Orders No. 64, from these headquarters, and, so soon as he turns over the property for which he is responsible, will 

 report to the commanding officer of Camp Floyd. 



Captain Simpson will immediately appoint an officer of his party to relieve Lieutenant Murry of his responsibilities. 

 The senior non-commissioned officer of the escort will report to Captain Simpson for duty. 

 By order of Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. S. Johnston. 



P. J. Porter, 



In accordance with the foregoing orders, Lieutenant Putnam has been assigned 

 the duties of quartermaster and commissary, as follows: 



Office Topographical Engineers, Department of Utah, 



Camp Floyd, Utah, August 8, 1859. 

 Sir: Lieut. Alexander Marry, tenth Infcntry, having been released from the command of the escort which has been 

 directed to accompauy the Topographical Engineer party to Fort Leavenworth, and therefore of the duties of acting 

 Mgistani quartermaster and of acting assistant commissary, you will act in these capacities. 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Lieut. H. S. Putnam Captain Topographical Engineers, 



Corps Topographical Engineers. 



August 9 — Left Camp Floyd at 12 m., in prosecution of orders of August 5, from 

 headquarters Department of Utah, given above. Party and escort consist, all told, 

 of 54 persons. 



Have with us 8 quartermaster's wagons, 1 large spring wagon, 1 light ambulance, 

 and 98 animals. Took the usually traveled road to the bridge over the Jordan; thence 

 through the towns of Lehi, American Fork settlement, Battle Creek settlement, and 

 valley of Timpanogos River to Round Prairie, where, August 10, we encamped. 'Dis- 



tance from Camp Floyd 50 mile 



■lption ol these places and the Timpanogos 



Valley, I extract, as follows, from my report of the route I explored and opened 

 from Camp Floyd to Fort Briber, under instructions from General Johnston, command- 

 ing the Department of Utah, last fall. This report is to be found in Senate Ex. Doc 

 No. 40, 35th Congress. 



"DESCRIPTION OF THE PORTION OF THE ROUTE FROM CAMP FLOYD TO THE MOUTH OF 

 THE TIMPANOGOS RIVER CANON, A DISTANCE OF 29.25 MILES. 



"The route from Camp Floyd pursues a course east of north for about 9 miles, 

 when it passes over a low ridge, and, gradually turning more eastwardly, leaves Cedar 

 Valley, and gets into the valley of Jordan River, which river it crosses in 5 miles, by 

 a toll-bridge sixty feet long; and thence, continuing its course eastwardly alono- and 

 2 miles from, the foot of Utah Lake, in 2.75 miles reaches Lehi City; thence, turning 

 gradually southwardly, and slightly diverging eastwardly from a parallelism to the 

 •shore of Utah Lake, which it leaves to the right at about an average distance of 3.5 



