REPORT AND JOURNAL. 



specified. 



"I consider the discovery of this pass, in connection with tin 

 through the Wahsatch range, a most fortunate one, and doubt not 



formation of a wagon-route all the way through the Rocky Mo 



greatly ameliorate the present traveled routes, and be of great serv 

 of my lately explored route from California eastward by way of 

 States. 



"Major F. J. Porter, 



"Assistant Adjutant General, Camp Floyd, Ft ah Territory." 



would add to the foregoing that the route, as far as the Tint.-. River, is quite 

 well wooded: on Coal Creek Canon with cottonwoods and fir trees ; on Potts' Creek 

 with the fir, and on the Du Chesne with the cottonwood and dwarf cedar. 1 would 

 also remark that the valley of the Du Chesne, which varies from a quarter to two 



miles wide, is a great deal of it cultivable, and as it lies well for irrigation is well 

 watered, and probably warm enough for crops. I doubt not when it shall have been 

 made accessible by a good wagon-roa 1 1 it will rapidlv till up with population. The 

 valley of the Uinta, Mr. Gammell represents as also being very fine, all the way to 

 Green River, being covered with groves of large cottonwood, beautiful grass, and so 

 lying as to be easily irrigated. It is, besides, accounted as one of the warmest valleys 

 in the Territory. He says it is from one to ten miles wide. Both the Du Chesne Fork 

 and the Uinta River, where they meet, are about 50 feet wide, ami from one to three 

 feet deep. The former is said to contain trout and white-fish, the white-fish weighing 

 from 10 to 25 pounds. The valleys of these rivers are deeply seated between inclos- 

 ing heights, varying from -200 to 500 feet. The formation of the rocks is like that of 

 White Clay Creek, whitish sandstones alternating with sandstone shales. 



Besides the value of the discovery of this pass, in connection with the extension 

 of my routes, and the establishment of the magnetic telegraph from California directly 



country town, to the States, and thus shortening the present postal route from Camp 

 Floyd" to Saint Joseph from GO to 100 miles, the construction of the road will be of 

 great value in opening an avenue of trade between the Mormon settlements and the 

 Pike's Peak country, by which the produce of the former may be conveyed to the 

 latter, much to the benefit of the miners. 



It will be also noticed that a link of about 100 miles, between the mouth of 

 Du Chesne's Fork and Gunnison's route, along the Grand River, which the guide says 

 is practicable, will open a route to the headwaters of the Arkansas, and to Santa Fe 

 from Camp Floyd; which will be much shorter, and, doubtless, in other respects much 

 preferable to the present roundabout route, by the way of Salt Creek and the Sevier 

 Valley. 



