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"The grass, particularly in Ronnd Prairie, where there is a great deal of meadow 

 land, is abundant, and I know no place where stock could be Letter fed. sheltered, 

 and watered during summer and winter. Already have stock-orazcrs <rone into this 

 valley and secured a considerable quantity of hay for the winter. The soil is. a great 

 deal of it, of excellent charncter. and, as it is "capable of being easily irrigated, 1 

 doubt not it will prove verv productive." 



I would add to the foregoing that Mr. Wall, who has a ranch at the lower portion 

 of Round Prairie, informs me that, on the night of the 7th August last, a frost killed 

 all the vines, corn, and vegetables he had planted as an experiment to see if they would 

 mature in this valley. The spring wheat and oats were not injured, though the former 

 is backward. He is confident that fall wheat, oats, barley, and rye will mature, lias 

 1,000 head of sheep and 2,000 head of cattle grazing in the valley. It is a singular 

 circumstance that, higher up the valley, in Pound Prairie, at Beber City, the frost has 

 not proved near so destructive, it having as vet done little or no damage. The eleva- 

 tion of Round Prairie above the sea is 5,571 feet. Longitude, 111 25' 56"; latitude, 

 40° "29' 25". 



August 12, Camp oh Torberfs Creek, Bound Prairie.— Elevation above the sea, 



this point, I leave this morning to examine pass over Uinta range; into Green River 

 Yallev, agreeably to orders of General Johnston of August ~>th. Take with me one 

 of my assistants, Mr. Henry Engelmann, (geologist and meteorologist, ) ten dragoons.Mr. 

 James Gammell, as guide, Ute Pete, Clark, and Dougherty, in all sixteen persons, with 

 three pack-mules. After being engaged nine days in this reconnaissance, I returned to 

 the main camp August 19, and reported the next day, as follows, to General Johnston: 



-Camp, Tobbebt Creek, Round Prairie, 

 TWanogos Valley, Utah Territory, August 20, 1859. 

 "Sir: Agreeably to the orders of the commanding general of the 5th instant, I 

 left Camp Floyd with my party on the 9th, reorganized for its return to the States, 

 and prepared to make, on its arrival at this camp, the examination required in said 

 orders, of the country intervening this and the Uinta Valley for the ascertainment of 

 the practicability of a wagon-road hence to Green River. 



"I arrived "here on the 11th; started on the exploration referred to the next day, 



miles, to its junction with Du Chesne's Fork of the Uinta River: elevation above the 

 sea, 6,814 feet; and thence, generally south 7<> ? east, down the valley of the Do 



tude, 40° 09' 50". Elevation above the sea, 5,345 feet. Whole distance from mouth 

 of Coal Creek Canon to the Uinta River, 75 miles. Here my examination ended, on 



